SUSE Labs Conference 2020 - Networking: the things we do for performance
Channel: SUSE Labs
Date: 2020-10-05

Conference held using the awesome #bigbluebutton !

The amount of data flowing through networks keeps growing, network hardware gets faster, the traffic gets more complex and more complex processing is required. While CPU power is also growing, it is not growing fast enough to keep the pace.

As a result of this trend, the networking stack can no longer work the way it used to. We need better use of hardware offloading and acceleration features and also some shortcuts and tricks to make the handling fast enough. The talk shows some of these techniques.