
Robert Love, a famous Linux kernel hacker, has
written a blog entry with his thoughs on the
recently posted Vista's network slowdown issue and the
explanation given by Mark Russinovich:
"Unlike DPCs, however, the Linux parallel does not consume nearly half of your CPU. There is no excusable reason why processing IP packets should so damagingly affect the system. Thus, this absolutely abysmal networking performance should be an issue in and of itself, but the Windows developers decided to focus on a secondary effect."