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Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Paul <paul@gtcomm.net>,
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Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question,
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>> I have a pre-production card. With some bug fixes and some tuning of
>> interrupt handling (custom stack - I've been asked to push the changes
>> back in to CVS, I just don't have time right now) an otherwise
>> unoptimized igb can forward 1.04Mpps from one port to another (1.04
>> Mpps in  on igb0 and 1.04 Mpps out on igb1) using 3.5 cores on an 8
>> core system.
>>
>>
>
> Is this on 1gbps or on 10gbps NIC?
>>

Hi Stefan,
The hardware that igb supports is just the latest revision of the
hardware supported by em, i.e. it is 1gbps.

Cheers,
Kip