Another technology worth mentioning is the Linux network parallelism features (which I think came from Google): https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networ

Another technology worth mentioning is the Linux network parallelism features (which I think came from Google): https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/scaling.... My colleague at Netflix, Amer Ather, wrote about this tuning and more in a post detailing some network tuning from a Xen guest, where he was reaching 2 million packets/sec: http://techblog.cloudperf.net/2016/05/ http://techblog.cloudperf.net/2016/05/