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Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 21:34:32 +0400
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: performance of ipfw and pf in CURRENT?
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On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 06:26:28PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
O> A while ago some performance graphs were floating around here showing the net
O> performance of ipfw and pf. pf was, as far as I can remember, the single threaded
O> version. Are there more recent performance benchmarks available? Even if pf in FreeBSD is
O> still behind pf in recent OpenBSD, FreeBSD has now an threaded adaption and it would be
O> nice to see the overall performance for both.

pf in FreeBSD 10 is not single threaded.
pf in FreeBSD is behind OpenBSD in version numbers, but not in performance.

https://twitter.com/ocochardlabbe/status/401349027960082432

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