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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:53:22 +0300
From:      Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@moneybookers.com>
To:        Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>, "Support \(Rudy\)" <crapsh@monkeybrains.net>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding  performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]
Message-ID:  <4869F082.9010606@moneybookers.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807010334160.19444@filebunker.xip.at>
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Hi,

Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
> Dear Rudy,
>
>> I used polling in FreeBSD 5.x and it helped a bunch.  I set up a new 
>> router with 7.0 and MSI was recommended to me.  (I noticed no 
>> difference when moving from polling -> MSI, however, on 5.4 polling 
>> seemed to help a lot.  What are people using in 7.0?
>> polling or MSI?
>
> if you have a inet-router with gige-uplinks, it is possible that there 
> will be (d)dos attacks.
> only polling helps you then to keep the router manageable (but 
> dropping packets).
Let me disagree :)
I'm experimenting with bridge and Intel 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
On quad core system I have no problems with the stability of the bridge 
without polling.
taskq em0 takes 100% CPU, but I have another three (cpus/cores) that are 
free and the router is very very stable, no lag on other interfaces
and the average load is not very high too.
>
> Kind regards,
>     Ingo Flaschberger
>
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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
ICQ# 24134177




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