FreeBSD's Network Bridge Code Scores A 500% Performance Improvement

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD's Network Bridge Code Scores A 500% Performance Improvement

Thanks to a FreeBSD Foundation Community Grant, FreeBSD 13 will be bringing up to a 5x performance improvement for if_bridge, the kernel code for network bridge device support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-5x-IF_Bridge-Perf

[pal666]

5x is 400%

[bison]

5x is 400%

You beat me to it.

[Steffo]

Nice to see this improvement by an alternative OS.

[Candy]

Welcome to the 90's

[peterdk]

Interesting, this 'epoch' thing. Does the Linux kernel have something like it?

[tildearrow]

You beat me to it.

And you beat me to his beating *sighs*

[tildearrow]

What?! Really?

What is next? FreeBSD replacing Linux on my computers?!!!

Come on Linux catch up before FreeBSD keeps taking over the world!

[Space Heater]

Interesting, this 'epoch' thing. Does the Linux kernel have something like it?

Epoch is essentially FreeBSD's version of Linux's RCU.

[starshipeleven]

something something BSD kernel is so great at networking something something