On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Brian McGinty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a pre-production card. With some bug fixes and some tuning of >> interrupt handling (custom stack - I've been asked to push the changes >> back in to CVS, I just don't have time right now) an otherwise >> unoptimized igb can forward 1.04Mpps from one port to another (1.04 >> Mpps in on igb0 and 1.04 Mpps out on igb1) using 3.5 cores on an 8 >> core system. > > I have a 8 core system running stock Linux that easily does line rate > (ie, 1.488 Mpps) on 3 (82575) interfaces. Ie, 3 * 1.48 Mpps!
Hi Brian I very much doubt that this is ceteris paribus. This is 384 random IPs -> 384 random IP addresses with a flow lookup for each packet. Also, I've read through igb on Linux - it has a lot of optimizations that the FreeBSD driver lacks and I have yet to implement. Thanks, Kip _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
