Linux 7.0 Scores +12% In UDP Network Performance Test From Manually Inlining Function

Linux 7.0 achieves a 12% performance improvement in UDP receive stress tests on 100Gbit NICs by manually inlining the timecounter_cyc2time() function. The optimization addresses a bottleneck where the function can be called over 100 million times per second on busy servers, particularly for hardware timestamping needed by new Show more