Networking stack to increase parallelism and improve performance for multi-processor systems

Cisco UCS, multi-queue NICs, and RSS

VMQ Deep Dive

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RSS Deep Dive - Tech Talks

Introduction to Receive Side Scaling

Scaling in the Linux Networking Stack

This document describes a set of complementary techniques in the Linux
networking stack to increase parallelism and improve performance for
multi-processor systems.
The following technologies are described:
  RSS: Receive Side Scaling
  RPS: Receive Packet Steering
  RFS: Receive Flow Steering
  Accelerated Receive Flow Steering
  XPS: Transmit Packet Steering