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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:26:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Virtual Interface Architecture 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.980331122600.9500D-100000@terra>
In-Reply-To: <199803311720.LAA07492@friley585.res.iastate.edu>

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> As someone else mentioned, Van Jacobson has gotten the fast path case
> down to ~30 instructions for TCP processing on the receive side.  If
> we could get around all the complex memory management using something like
> above, it should perform fairly well.

This has been mentioned, starting ca. 1990. Has anyone seen the code? 
nowadays when I bring this up people shrug their shoulders in disbelief.
Kind of a shame. 

ron

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