Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > my general attitude is that when you are hitting 100% cpu > utilization, small performance improvements such as those > deriving from m_getcl() are not relevant, and you might > want to restructure your sw in order to get substantial > performance improvements. > > In the specific case, at least reading from the comments, > it seems that firewall processing is really the main > cpu consumer, so they should revise their ruleset more > than move to a different board, or use polling (i have polling > patches for the intel gigabit adapter) > > What are the actual packet rates at which you are seeing problems ?
He probably can't tell because of the 32bit ifstats counters. They wrap every other minute on a well loaded Gigabit card. -- Andre > cheers > luigi > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:53:43AM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > > > No, we use IPFilter (and that definitely isn't going to change any time > > > soon). > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
