Packet flow in Linux starts from the network interface card (NIC) and travels through various layers of the kernel before reaching user-space applications or being transmitted out. Understanding this ...

Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput considerably. The technique is one of a number of ...

Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should ... of Google's Receive Packet Steering (RPS) and Receive Flow Steering (RFS).