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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:55:06 +0200
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, performance@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10G forwarding performance @Intel
Message-ID:  <20120703165506.GA90114@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <4FF319A2.6070905@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4FF319A2.6070905@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:11:14PM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> I'm quite stuck with bad forwarding performance on many FreeBSD boxes 
> doing firewalling.
...
> In most cases system can forward no more than 700 (or 1400) kpps which 
> is quite a bad number (Linux does, say, 5MPPs on nearly the same hardware).

among the many interesting tests you have run, i am curious
if you have tried to remove the update of the counters on route
entries. They might be another severe contention point.

cheers
luigi



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