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by SaveTheRbtz 1857 days ago
We didn't mention RSS/RPS in the post mostly because they are stable. (Albeit, relatively ineffective in terms of L2 cache misses.) FlowDirector, OTOH, breaks that stability and causes a lot of migrations, and hence a lot of re-ordering.

Anyways, nice reference for TAPS! Fo those wanting to dig into it a bit more, consider reading an introductory paper (before a myriad of RFC drafts from the "TAPS Working Group"): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11035.pdf

PS. We went through most of our low-level web-server optimization for the Edge Network in an old blogpost: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/optimizing-web-servers-f...