Zack's Kernel News
Zack's Kernel News
Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
Intelligent Networking Policies
Kan Liang wanted to simplify Linux networking configuration to get better performance on a variety of workloads. The problem, he said, was that the default configuration options didn't really work well, and tweaking them properly took a lot of skill.
His approach was to create a set of policies that would provide hints to the kernel that would then be used to tweak the more fine-grained networking controls automatically. Kan's idea would involve per-socket, per-task, and per-device policies that the kernel would interpret to give near optimal performance.
Kan specified that his approach would not be an attempt to optimize networking performance fully, but that it would hopefully bring a system to 90 percent networking efficiency.
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