Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:49:08 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vlan forwarding performance (was Proposed em forwawrding performance) Message-ID: <200611292151.kATLpApP041879@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20061129213301.I16817@fledge.watson.org> References: <4557CECD.2000609@samsco.org> <200611130158.kAD1wdKE040908@lava.sentex.ca> <4557EF13.9060305@samsco.org> <200611130454.kAD4sZwe041556@lava.sentex.ca> <4557FF7A.8020704@samsco.org> <200611132054.kADKsFvK045726@lava.sentex.ca> <4558E3DC.6080800@samsco.org> <200611200454.kAK4sdat083568@lava.sentex.ca> <7.1.0.9.0.20061120160757.14d4a728@sentex.net> <200611220247.kAM2l9JP095066@lava.sentex.ca> <20061122130947.GM20405@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200611231652.kANGqJsr005016@lava.sentex.ca> <1164356894.4306.1.camel@massimo.datacode.it> <200611272136.kARLaMeG029740@lava.sentex.ca> <20061128090648.d58eb6ae.massimo@cedoc.mo.it> <200611290327.kAT3RnJ0037112@lava.sentex.ca> <200611292128.kATLSIMu041796@lava.sentex.ca> <20061129213301.I16817@fledge.watson.org>
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At 04:35 PM 11/29/2006, Robert Watson wrote:
>You may want to datestamp the version of HEAD you're using in each
>test (assuming it changes between tests).
Ahh, Good point. I have been using the sources always from Nov 24th
to make comparisons as similar as possible for the tests with 7.0
>which will affect a broad range of performance
>characteristics. There have also been VLAN tagging related
>performance improvements made in HEAD that aren't present in
>RELENG_6, avoiding extra memory allocations and frees in storing the tags.
I ran the tests against RELENG_6 then as well and have posted those
results. There does indeed seem to be a slight improvement in HEAD
over RELENG_6.
---Mike
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