Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:57:08 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [fbsd] Re: throughput and interrupts Message-ID: <20060819125708.B22972@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20060819195336.GL57815@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>; from jeremie@le-hen.org on Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:53:36PM %2B0200 References: <200608151627.37828.root@solink.ru> <20060815130002.M45647@fledge.watson.org> <200608160959.23100.root@solink.ru> <20060816094944.GC820@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <44E3A2C0.2020801@elischer.org> <20060819195336.GL57815@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:53:36PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi, > > > >natd runs in userland so every packet has to be pushed out to userland, > > >processed and pushed back into the kernel. The vast majority of the > > >overhead is the userland/kernel transition so natd gives you a basically > > >fixed pps rate. Your throughput will vary depending on the packet size. > > > > > > > > > > in 6.1 there is an in kernel version of natd.. > > > > man ng_nat > > What about the SoC 2005 project, aiming to push libalias down > into a kernel module ? IIRC, there have been some patches > but I saw nothing commited. This thread has stirred this > up from my memory. Paolo Pisati is now a committer and hopefully will commit that stuff when he will be done with his current SoC work cheers luigi > Thank you, > -- > Jeremie Le Hen > < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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