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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:53:26 -0700
From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To: cmxu <cmxu@rdsk.net>
Cc: Gabriel Rocha <gabe@seul.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ipfw on gigabit ethernet
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 02:36:27PM +0800, cmxu wrote:
> Hello Luigi:
> 	How about make em polling to gain more throughput? 

it's ready to commit.

	luigi

> cmxu
> 
> >with "em" cards and a 1GHz P3 and ipfw2 and recent fixes (m_getcl())
> >i had a throughput of ~260kpps with a single accept rule, of
> >course degrading as the ruleset size increases (i think around 230kpps
> >with 10 rules but i could be mistaken).
> >The CPU is a bottleneck there, though i do not know how
> >fast CPUs you can get on systems with 64-bit PCI slots.
> 
> >I had good experience with the "em" cards and driver.
> 
> >	cheers
> >	luigi

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