Redefining Network Performance A Comprehensive Guide to Net Device Passthrough in Linux

For example, the kernel can submit large (up to 64k) TCP segments to the NIC, which the NIC will then break down into MTU-sized segments. ... [email protected]. Commit Message. Jiri Pirko July 12, 2011, 11:06 a.m. ... For example very common is to have eth<->(br+vlan). Vlan is not using ... The net_failover driver provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and standby slave ... One of the canonical examples is when you want the return traffic for a given connection to pass through a load balancer, and leave it up to the ... ... [email protected]. Commit Message. Mario Limonciello June 7, 2016, 6 ... What will linux kernel do in this case? This is very similar situation as ... The user accesses the network interface via 'failover' netdev. The 'failover' netdev chooses 'primary' netdev as ... If you are curious how exactly this works, please see the Linux kernel's DMA API HOWTO. It turns out the number and size of the RX queues ... Checks whether a specific kernel ... The "[Tap]" section only applies for netdevs of kind "tap", and accepts the same keys as the "[Tun]" section. EXAMPLE. the struct net_device level. This paper describes those ... For example, if a packet is transmitted by userspace to a peer for ... Speakers: Sandeep Nagapattinam Nupur Uttarwar Venkata Suresh Kumar Namrata Limaye Info: This talk demonstrates the linux kernel network ...