Patches speeding up TCP have been accepted into Linux kernel 6.8
A set of changes that significantly enhances the performance of the TCP stack has been accepted into the codebase forming Linux kernel 6.8. In cases involving a large number of parallel TCP connections, the speedup can reach up to 40%. This improvement was made possible because the variables in the network stack structures (socks, netdev, netns, mibs) were arranged as they were added due to historical reasons. A revision of the variable placement in […]
