| ▲ | blibble 7 months ago | |
that's because cloud networks are complete shit this is xilinux/mellanox cards with kernel bypass and cut-through switches with busy-waiting in reality, in a prod system | ||
| ▲ | jiggawatts 7 months ago | parent [-] | |
Both Azure and AWS have kernel-bypass, and they use 100 to 200 Gbps NICs that are either bespoke silicon or have onboard FPGAs for offloading various things such as encryption and packet header rewrites. I wouldn't rate them as "complete shit". | ||