====== Networking Session ======

===== Discussion Topics =====

  * hw/sw interface
  * performance
  * latency
  * bandwidth
  * Driver quality
  * size of code
  * IFlib
  * RSS/NUMA
  * Flow Affinity
  * multiqueue
  * BPF MQ Patches
  * Pacing/Back Pressure
  * MPTCP
  * Conformance tests?

===== Main Issues =====
  * Flow table does not work, does not scale
  * IPv4/IPv6 Performance issues
  * routing lookups are expensive
  * RCU?
  * Locking?
  * Data structure (Luigi/Marko paper)
  * Pacing?
  * Netflix (lawrence)
  * inter packet gap

===== Solution: better upwards feedback =====
  * Pause frame notifications, ECN
  * tcp-info fields
  * Add this feedback to the kqueue interface
  * congestion filters
  * IPV6 Specific Performance issues are unknown