As noted in the paper, something of relevance: Receive Packet Steering is a recent patch from Google for the Linux Kernel addresses the issue of packet processi

As noted in the paper, something of relevance: Receive Packet Steering is a recent patch from Google for the Linux Kernel addresses the issue of packet processing by hashing packets to specific cores, while honouring data locality. http://lwn.net/Articles/328339/ http://lwn.net/Articles/328339/ Facebook also apparently made some changes to their Kernel to optimise the IO path for memcached. Mark Zuckerberg presents some of the modifications in this (slightly long) techtalk: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=631826881803 http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=631826881803