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Date:      Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:23:37 -0400
From:      Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>
To:        Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com>
Cc:        mattr@eagle.ca, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quagga as border router
Message-ID:  <46F3B7C9.7050605@ibctech.ca>
In-Reply-To: <46F23D74.9000701@gmail.com>
References:  <46F1AC0B.9040109@ibctech.ca> <46F1BDE1.8090102@gmail.com> <46F1F136.3010203@ibctech.ca> <46F23D74.9000701@gmail.com>

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> I'm not saying you should use polling. I'm saying that not using polling
> makes for more context switches. 64bit registers are twice as large as
> 32bit registers. There will be a bigger penalty on stack/memory usage
> and therefore slower transitions from one context to another (read:
> handling a packet).
> This might be mitigated by having a very large cpu cache.
> 
> It may or may not make much of a difference considering stacks are
> aligned, i was just theorizing.

Ok, I get what you are saying now.

> Just curious: Is there a reason you can't advertise your entire
> allocated block and receive two full feeds?

Well to be honest, there is no reason why I couldn't receive full routes
with the new box.

My current router couldn't handle the full route table, but any new
router will be able to.

Regards,

Steve



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