Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:12 PM 11/25/2006, Nick Pavlica wrote: I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference. Mike, Have you done any testing on Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris? I understand that it has a very robust IP stack. It would be interesting to see how the three stack up against each other (FBSD, LINUS,

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-25 Thread Nick Pavlica
I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference. Mike, Have you done any testing on Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris? I understand that it has a very robust IP stack. It would be interesting to see how the three stack up against each other (FBSD, LINUS, SunOS). --Nick _

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:36:05AM +0100 I heard the voice of Divacky Roman, and lo! it spake thus: > > hm.. now I am confused. the rule is that having I586_CPU improves > performance because optimized bzero/bcopy is included (its not > included if you only have I686_CPU). Haven't we been by thi

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Divacky Roman wrote: > hm.. now I am confused. the rule is that having I586_CPU improves > performance because optimized bzero/bcopy is included (its not > included if you only have I686_CPU). > > I dont understand why the generic version is used. I believe the consensus was that I486 line disab

Re: em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-25 Thread Divacky Roman
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:18:03PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:03 PM 11/24/2006, Divacky Roman wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:27:40PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> At 03:28 AM 11/24/2006, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > >> >On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 11:52 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> > > >> >>