Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-11 Thread Mihail Balikov
Our routers are with 2 em NICs, doing about 100kkps. Without kernel polling system become unstable, it seems that default interrupts moderation on em is 1 intr/sec. I have made some modification in kernel to decrease packet drops when polling is enabled - modify clock routines to allow high c

pf table synchronization between redundant routers (pfsync?)

2006-11-11 Thread Nikolay Denev
Hi all, I'm thinking about adding support for pfsync to synchronize pf tables, so it can be used on redundant firewalls/routers setup. At first glance it looks fairly simple, just send/receive a message containing the table name, the prefix, and the action "add" or "remove". Has anyone tried

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:42 AM 11/11/2006, Scott Long wrote: surprised by your results. I'm still a bit unclear on the exact topology of your setup, so if could explain it some more in private email, I'd appreciate it. Hi, I made a quick diagram of the test setup that should make it more clear http:/

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:42 AM 11/11/2006, Scott Long wrote: driver. What will help me is if you can hook up a serial console to your machine and see if it can be made to drop to the debugger while it is under load and otherwise unresponsive. If you can, getting a process dump might help confirm where each CPU is