Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:14:09 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, lev@freebsd.org, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Subject: Re: Bad routing performance on 500Mhz Geode LX with CURRENT, ipfw and mpd5 (was: ipfw, "ip|all" proto and PPPoE -- does PPPoE packets passed to ipfw?) Message-ID: <20120830211409.GC97191@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK1P6Y-8tDYrP%2B4ca3FG_QwHjPpoZNzUQBCZFjf1LbyEZg@mail.gmail.com> References: <1865271844.20120829131610@serebryakov.spb.ru> <CAHu1Y70MynCMQTrJUMwTZ0%2BLrM1JiZFt_B77028XHfoiRgzmaA@mail.gmail.com> <1807373989.20120829223125@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20120830152726.A33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <534292400.20120830131158@serebryakov.spb.ru> <CA%2BtpaK1P6Y-8tDYrP%2B4ca3FG_QwHjPpoZNzUQBCZFjf1LbyEZg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:32:25PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Hello, Ian. > > You wrote 30 ??????? 2012 ?., 10:23:56: > > > > >> Yep, I'll collapse my two-rule chains in one rule. > > IS> I guess if the issue persists, we may need to see more of your ruleset. > > Not a problem at all, here it is: > > http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/_sklad/firewall.ipfw > > > > IS> Hmm, you shouldn't see ANY pppoe traffic on ng0, only on the interface > > IS> mpd5 uses to connect with your DSL modem/bridge. Nor would you expect > > Yep. I didn't see it. My question is, really: why vr1 (my physical > > interface, used to connect to my ISP) takes 50%+ of CPU when traffic > > is only 40mbit/s down and about 20mbit/s up (with many connections)? > > > Have you taken this into account from vr(4)? I was indeed going to mention something like this. Old/slow machines often have very low memory bandwidth, so the rule 1GHz<->1 Gbit/s does not really apply. cheers luigi > BUGS > The vr driver always copies transmit mbuf chains into longword-aligned > buffers prior to transmission in order to pacify the Rhine chips. If > buffers are not aligned correctly, the chip will round the supplied > buffer address and begin DMAing from the wrong location. This buffer > copying impairs transmit performance on slower systems but cannot be > avoided. On faster machines (e.g. a Pentium II), the performance > impact > is much less noticeable. > -- > Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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