Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] net: Add new network device function to allow for MMIO batching

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:50:07 -0700

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:38:49 +0200
Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Frankly what percentage of linux powered machines act as high perf
> routers ?

More than you think, every Linux machine acting as hypervisor (Xen and KVM)
is also doing this.