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Date:      Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:18:40 -0200
From:      Evandro Nunes <evandronunes12@gmail.com>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: netmap in GENERIC, by default, on HEAD
Message-ID:  <CAG4HiT46ZT1dDTt7Asv8gagPKrwH%2BTS-uUsvKDhNKiXMDM68nA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <545A47A5.4010601@yandex.ru>
References:  <92D22BEA-DDE5-4C6E-855C-B8CACB0319AC@neville-neil.com> <545A47A5.4010601@yandex.ru>

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> wrote:

> On 05.11.2014 18:39, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Last night (Pacific Time) I committed a change so that GENERIC, on HEAD
> > has the netmap
> > device enabled.  This is to increase the breadth of our testing of that
> > feature prior
> > to the release of FreeBSD 11.
> >
> > In two weeks I will enable IPSec by default, again in preparation for 11.
>
> Hi,
>
> recently we did some IP forwarding tests and the GENERIC kernel is
> several times faster than GENERIC+IPSEC. Even when IPSEC has no SA.
>
> I didn't do test on vanilla kernel, but our kernel is able forward
> IPv4/IPv6 on rate close to 8.6 Mpps. The same kernel compiled with IPSEC
> can forward only 180 kpps. I think this problem should be solved before
> enabling it in GENERIC.
>

this forward rate you mention is related to netmap? or usual
forwarding/fastforwarding? this is a huge number, do you mind sharing your
dmesg output and top -PSH output so I can check for interrupt CPU usage and
other relevant stuff?

thank you



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