Re: [SAGE] Enterprise Documentation

["Adam S. Moskowitz" <adamm@menlo.com>]

"W. Curtis Preston" <curtis.lists@backupcentral.com> wrote:
> The new answer is no longer jumbo frames, although that could help. The
> new answer is hardware-accelerated GbE NICs that remove the processing
> off of the host CPU and onto the card.

There's also work on using Fiber Channel (and Virtual Interface)
underneath traditional network protocols. This not only reduces the
interrupt load the CPU has to deal with (FC can do 64MB per transfer)
(from the kernel's perspective), but some of the really hot research
eliminates copying the data from user space to kernel space, which is
another big performance bugaboo.

Combine this with 10Gb Ethernet and wow!

AdamM