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Date:      Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:11:23 -0700
From:      "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
To:        "Brian McGinty" <brian.mcginty@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Paul <paul@gtcomm.net>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Brian McGinty <brian.mcginty@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Brian
>> I very much doubt that this is ceteris paribus. This is 384 random IPs
>>  -> 384 random IP addresses with a flow lookup for each packet. Also,
>> I've read through igb on Linux - it has a lot of optimizations that
>> the FreeBSD driver lacks and I have yet to implement.
>
> Hey Kip,
> when will you push the optimization into FreeBSD?

Hi Brian,

I'm hoping to get to it some time in August. I'm a bit behind in my
contracts at the moment.

FYI: I'm actually able to forward 2.3Mpps between 2 10Gig interfaces
on an 8-core system. I'm hoping to push it up to 3Mpps.

Thanks,
Kip



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