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From: "Brian McGinty" <brian.mcginty@gmail.com>
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Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Paul <paul@gtcomm.net>,
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Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question,
	and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]
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> 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?

Cheers,
Brian