* Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020201 00:25] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:59:31PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > You will get a factor of 6 (approximately) improvement in > > throughput vs. overhead if you process packets to completion > > at interrupt, and process writes to completion at write time > > from the process. > > this does not match my numbers. e.g. using "fastforwarding" > (which bypasses netisrs's) improves peak throughput > by a factor between 1.2 and 2 on our test boxes.
Forwarding packets is a lot less complicated than doing tcp recieve and send. I haven't seen Terry's stuff in action, however it makes sense that tcp would see more of an improvement than simple IP forwarding. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
