References

Hardware and NIC Specific:

• http://www.ece.rice.edu/~willmann/teng_nics_hownicswork.html
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/s-network-common-queue-issues.html
• http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/348793/
• http://netoptimizer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/pktgen-for-network-overload-testing.html

Linux Full Networking Stack Guides:

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/kernel_flow
• http://www.geeksofpune.in/files/GEEP-NetworkingStack-28may14.pdf
• https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data/
• https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/10/11/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data-illustrated/
• https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/06/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-sending-data/
• https://fasterdata.es.net/host-tuning/
• https://www.coverfire.com/articles/queueing-in-the-linux-network-stack/

PACKET_MMAP and PACKET_TX_RING/PACKET_RX_RING:

• https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt

Packet processing timing and locks in the Kernel:

• https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/

SK Buffs:

• http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/skb_data.html
• http://www.haifux.org/lectures/217/netLec5.pdf
• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/sk_buff
• https://lwn.net/Articles/615243/

TC and QDISCs:

• http://lartc.org/howto/index.html
• http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/