Re: Tuning gigabit bridging firewall for better performance

[Sean Knox]

Melameth, Daniel D. wrote:
I don't know if this will help, but you might also want to look into
piloting -current's idle loop fix. 

I'm in a similar situation (and similar hardware, em(4) cards in 
particular) as the OP. I'm running firewalls with June 3 snapshots, but 
I'm push 16k+18k pps at 70% interrupts. In my case, the idle loop fix 
didn't seem to help much. Just FYI.

sk