That is a very interesting paper. Seriously, 7mpps with an off-the-shelf Dell 2950? Even if it were -half- that throughput, for a pure ethernet forwarding solution that is incredible. Shoot, buy a handful of them as hot spares and still save a bundle.
Highly recommended reading, even if (like me) you're anti-commodity routing. Cheers, Randal On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008, Charles Wyble wrote: > >> This might be of interest: >> >> http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/tmp/vrouter-perf.pdf > > Various FreeBSD related guys are working on parallelising the forwarding > layer enough to use the multiple tx/rx queues in some chipsets such as the > Intel gig/10ge stuff. > > 1 mil pps has been broken that way, but it uses lots of cores to get there. > (8, I think?) > > Linux apparently is/has headed down this path.
