Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:24:51 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Subject: Re: [fbsd] Re: throughput and interrupts Message-ID: <44E7F223.1090702@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20060819125708.B22972@xorpc.icir.org> 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> <20060819125708.B22972@xorpc.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: >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. >> >> libalias is already there. > >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" >> >> >_______________________________________________ >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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