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Subject: Re: Silly experiments with netisr
From: Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
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> On Feb 5, 2015, at 2:23 PM, hiren panchasara =
<hiren@strugglingcoder.info> wrote:
>=20
> On 02/05/15 at 12:31P, Scott Long via freebsd-net wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>> Welcome to our workload.  Granted, we don?t involve pf, but the =
majority of our CPU processing right now is spent in TCP (with the rest =
being spent in the VM, but that?s a different matter).
>>=20
>> FWIW, Randall has some optimizations in this area of the stack.  They =
aren?t huge, IIRC they?re only a few percent, but worth looking at.
> Scott,
>=20
> It'd be great if you guys can share it. And yes, any small persentage =
would
> help :-)

As long as it=E2=80=99s not at the expense of forwarding.