Now, gamers will want to play on Linux for the low latency on online games.
Online games don’t typically have many concurrent connections, though, do they? Just the one.
I’m not an expert, but I suppose as this patch is on the kernel and not on the game, this will still improve any connection your kernel needs to do, like sending telemetry of your anti-cheat engine and other apps that make TCP requests while you are playing online games.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This effort has been around optimizing cacheline consumption and adding safeguards to ensure future changes don’t regress.
In turn this optimizing of core networking structures is causing TCP performance with many concurrent connections to increase by as much as 40% or more!
This patch series attempts to reorganize the core networking stack variables to minimize cacheline consumption during the phase of data transfer.
Meanwhile new Ethernet driver hardware support in Linux 6.8 includes the Octeon CN10K devices, Broadcom 5760X P7, Qualcomm SM8550 SoC, and Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY.
NVIDIA Mellanox Ethernet data center switches can also now enjoy firmware updates without a reboot.
The full list of new networking patches for the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window can be found via today’s pull request.
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Somebody please temper my expectations because this seems like an absolute game changer.
The test data on article is about server setup which is the right use case for this change.
Moreover the L3 cache on CPU is what makes significant difference, IMO.
If that is true, not sure how much improvement consumer-grade desktop will see, given that most consumer-grade CPU will not have that much L3 cache on chip.
AMD has been putting a lot of L3 cache on their consumer CPUs. The 5800X3D has 96mb of L3 cache.
Yes, that’s true. Only if Intel follows the same in future.
On a separate note, 5800X3D seems to be most efficient (throughput/watt) consumer grade CPU out there right now.
On a separate note, 5800X3D seems to be most efficient (throughput/watt) consumer grade CPU out there right now.
Pretty sure the 7800x3D surpasses it and the 7950x3D is no slouch either.
Their top-of-the-range Epyc 9684X has 1152MB :)
That’s definitely a CPU for server (unless you are a general consumer with lots of $ 🙂 ).
You’re not a cloud server that needs to run this many concurrent connections (probably)
No, but my cloud server with many concurrent connections may want to hear the good news!
