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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:28:35 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Storms of Perfection <gary@outloud.org>, thierry@herbelot.com, replicator@ngs.ru, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Clock Granularity (kernel option HZ)
Message-ID:  <20020201002835.I18604@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020201002339.C48439@iguana.icir.org>; from rizzo@icir.org on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:23:39AM -0800
References:  <20020131172729.X38382-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <3C59E873.4E8A82B5@mindspring.com> <20020201002339.C48439@iguana.icir.org>

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* Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> [020201 00:25] wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:59:31PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 
> > You will get a factor of 6 (approximately) improvement in
> > throughput vs. overhead if you process packets to completion
> > at interrupt, and process writes to completion at write time
> > from the process.
> 
> this does not match my numbers. e.g. using "fastforwarding"
> (which bypasses netisrs's) improves peak throughput
> by a factor between 1.2 and 2 on our test boxes.

Forwarding packets is a lot less complicated than doing tcp
recieve and send.  I haven't seen Terry's stuff in action,
however it makes sense that tcp would see more of an improvement
than simple IP forwarding.

-Alfred

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