Reorganizing and Paraphrasing: Linux 6.8 Nucleus Sees Significant TCPStek Productivity Increase
The Linux 6.8 nucleus has seen a significant boost in productivity for TCPStek, thanks to accepted changes in its code base. These changes, which can be found here, have allowed for an up to 40% increase in acceleration when processing multiple parallel TCP connections.
This improvement became possible by reevaluating the placement of variables in the structures of the network stack, such as SOCKS, NetDEV, Netns, and MIBS. Historically determined arrangements were rearranged to optimize cache utilization during data transfer and enhance access efficiency. As a result, TCP speed has noticeably increased, especially when dealing with a large number of simultaneous TCP connections.
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