Subject: Re: TCP 2MSL on loopback

From: Howard Chu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:22:37 -0800

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> TCP can not assume anything about the path that a packet may take.
> We have declared a moratorium on loopback benchmark foolishness.
> Go optimize the idle loop instead ;-)
Sure - A delay loop with fewer instructions is a worthwhile optimization 
because it has less impact on a CPU's instruction cache...
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