From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 01:11:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738B01065680 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F728FC1F for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1007504rvf.43 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:11:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ayihkqJkJVBlKprGBC3YzIAeLhVRfVCRVI9bySnZjCo=; b=THOmdSaV3qUTpgACRfRQEs69b/AAt6bXKF0f06A9iciUOo2If5aII6kAorTdTxZShX RkixLiEoOuTiFxtF+o85QIbYP524bWaFkTUTNh9nnF4p57Pz2OckmXXc8nRZxUiQahDm WPoTqbejdlFmnE+/SdXx2D49AGMBhPKZU0roA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=LCeBdlU2VcOO6MYTKW1QwTNY/iCCN5K1Ha4B19eND1qZusA02TZpnEyGjwB09LTZTL rzxmo8/t4MSH1ifw94TtadH5NrKePGPVxgU7db9patcOM158SVrzrskaz/6Ijr3eUHjA jNroSwanqng3I2+Joqt4jm9q7j/JwHzuOYU2M= Received: by 10.141.128.19 with SMTP id f19mr1003544rvn.107.1216516283941; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.123.2 with HTTP; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:11:23 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Brian McGinty" In-Reply-To: <601bffc40807112344n7a683f81y516f540e24d87389@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4867420D.7090406@gtcomm.net> <486A9A0E.6060308@elischer.org> <486B41D5.3060609@gtcomm.net> <4871E85C.8090907@freebsd.org> <48726422.7050703@gtcomm.net> <200807080107.m6817XxO021966@lava.sentex.ca> <601bffc40807081346q454c1f40td47a0f54806d8a8c@mail.gmail.com> <601bffc40807112344n7a683f81y516f540e24d87389@mail.gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Net , Paul , Andre Oppermann , Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp] X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:11:24 -0000 On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Brian McGinty 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