From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 17 17:38:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A75737B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:38:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7161F43F85 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:38:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <20030218013830051007dat7e>; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 01:38:30 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA17270; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:38:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:38:27 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Bosko Milekic Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mb_alloc cache balancer / garbage collector In-Reply-To: <20030217192418.A67144@unixdaemons.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Bosko Milekic wrote: [...] Bosko, If I have one NIC bound to one CPU (a future capability say,) and another bound to a second, and there is a stream of packets fron NIC1 to NIC2 (we are routing) at (say) 30,000 packets per second, what is the path by which those 30,000 packets make their way from CPU2's cache of mbufs, back to CPU1 to be used again? (each second). We'll imagine there are no packets going the other way. (maybe they take a different route). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message