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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:46:42 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Marko Zec <zec@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r191259 - head/sys/netinet
Message-ID:  <3c1674c90904200846x717b8bd9n518f8144a2e4fdcc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200904201004.19695.zec@freebsd.org>
References:  <200904190444.n3J4i5wF098362@svn.freebsd.org> <200904200929.57914.zec@freebsd.org> <3c1674c90904200047s551a93a3wec97607b8212b0d@mail.gmail.com> <200904201004.19695.zec@freebsd.org>

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> Hmm, such a scheme raises suspicion that in your particular case very few flow
> cache lookups could be serviced from CPU caches. 16MB + 80MB sounds to be in
> range with memory footprint of a DFZ table stored in our normal radix tree -
> so where's the benefit of the flow cache?
>

Well its a contrived example, you're not going to have any locality in
either case. In a more common CDN scenario you don't have more than
20k clients, but FreeBSD could still not be used as an edge router
because it could not handle forwarding 20Gbps.

-Kip



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