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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:59:29 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org>, Vijay Singh <vijju.singh@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: it's the output, not ack coalescing (Re: TSO and FreeBSD vs Linux)
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On 16 August 2013 10:06, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> the usenix paper and talk
>
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixfederatedconferencesweek/netmap-novel-framework-fast-packet-io
> should give a short description of what i did.
>
> Basically i manually insert returns (and free mbufs and resources)
> in some place in the path and then compute the time consumed by
> the code as the inverse of the average pps over 0.1 .. 1s intervals.
> By moving the point where i place the return, i can estimate the
> cost of the various sections of code involved.
>
>
Cool. I think I've seen this stuff.

I may have to spin up netmap soon, if only to look at how much more
efficient (and how!) you're driving the CPU and IO bus.



-adrian



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