Bits Up!

Not all packet loss is created equal. In particular, losing a SYN can really ruin your day - or at least the next 3 seconds which can feel l...

This post provides some performance measurements of my HTTP pipeline patches for Firefox. The key benefits of pipelining are reduced tran...

I have been working on a set of patches to revamp the Firefox HTTP pipeline implementation. The objective is to provide a fast and robust i...

For the past few months I've been on a personal quest to implement a safe and effective HTTP pipelining strategy for Mozilla Firefox. Th...

Last week I posted about a kernel patch that records how long out of order TCP packets are kept hidden from userspace while the kernel tri...

If packet N+1 of a TCP flow arrives before packet N, the receiving application does not see any data until packet N gets there. That's w...

Really neat paper: "Hash, Don't Cache: fast packet forwarding for enterprise edge routers". The paper and abstract are both ...

A while back I mentioned that Google thinks TCP ought to be more aggressive . I must admit, this matches my own bias. I can barely count the...

Posts about finding embedded linux in strange places are pretty common these days - but I couldn't resist this one. Flipping channels to...

Rocker ran out of batteries way too often. I knew I kept those old DC transformers for a reason.

Well that's funny. Just a few hours after my last post, which suggested that virtio based networking might be getting bested by the not-...

a lot of bits have been spilled over virtual network performance in v-bus vs virtio-net/virtio-pci.. (aka alacrity vm vs traditional kvm/qem...