Robert Love on Vista's Network Slowdown Issue
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Aug 2007 00:28 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Windows 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."
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RE[2]: Driver Quality
by Soulbender on Wed 29th Aug 2007 10:49 UTC in reply to "RE: Driver Quality"
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2005-08-18

"The Linux guys quite rightly rejected TOE because there was a lot of pain with zero benefit to anyone."

There's no evidence that TOE is the cause of this problem.

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RE[3]: Driver Quality
by segedunum on Wed 29th Aug 2007 11:09 in reply to "RE[2]: Driver Quality"
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2005-07-06

There's no evidence that TOE is the cause of this problem.

I never said it was (it was a specific reply) - but something in the network stack is definitely wrong because this didn't happen in XP.

Edited 2007-08-29 11:15

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