Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:19:47 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard-Labb=E9?= <olivier@cochard.me> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Erich Weiler <weiler@soe.ucsc.edu> Subject: Re: pf performance? Message-ID: <517AB733.7020302@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bq%2BTcru%2BYRc5JAumHBtWUu8C-WOFiAC3AckMmYthmZK9mT=MQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <5176E5C1.9090601@soe.ucsc.edu> <20130426134224.GV76816@FreeBSD.org> <CA%2Bq%2BTcru%2BYRc5JAumHBtWUu8C-WOFiAC3AckMmYthmZK9mT=MQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/26/2013 12:22 PM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> In FreeBSD 10 pf is no longer under single lock. On your hardware, >> I'd expect a measurable performance gain if you migrate to 10. > > Compairing 9.1 and current (249908) on my new test-server (HP ProLiant > DL320 G5, dual-core Xeon 3050, dual Intel NIC). > Like usual: one unidirectional flow of small packets, values in > packet-per-seconds: > > x 9.1 > + current > N Min Max Median Avg Stddev > x 5 379991 381508 381229 380892.6 667.69926 > + 5 332833 335502 334726 334223.2 1142.8266 > Difference at 95.0% confidence > -46669.4 +/- 1364.98 > -12.2526% +/- 0.358363% > (Student's t, pooled s = 935.915) Is that because pf is slower on a single flow, or packet forwarding in general is slower on HEAD ? How different is 9.1 and HEAD in just forwarding performance? ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/
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