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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:55:01 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Hongtao Yin <htyin@huawei.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance
Message-ID:  <d763ac660910151355k5fa593eu88d195dde09192be@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <78DB4AE8EF5F4A1EBD3992D7404B2725@china.huawei.com>
References:  <78DB4AE8EF5F4A1EBD3992D7404B2725@china.huawei.com>

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2009/10/15 Hongtao Yin <htyin@huawei.com>:
> Hi,
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> I compared TCP performance between FreeBSD and Linux by running test tools
> Netperf and Iperf with Intel NIC.

Did you compare syscalls made and time taken?

For example, do either/both of them do a lot of gettimeofday() calls?
FreeBSD and Linux have (had?) different behaviours and performance
with those.

I'd suggest digging a bit deeper? :)


adrian



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