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SubjectRe: Linux Routing Performance inferior?
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:41:34PM -0400, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> >>"FreeBSD (5.x) can route 1Mpps on a 2.8G Xeon while
> >>Linux can't do much more than 100kpps"
>
> Nonetheless, FreeBSD has some advantages. They achieved their results
> using a fast forwarding path (enabled via sysctl) that processes
> forwarded packets to completion entirely within the interrupt handler.

I've already posted presentation about those features (*) to netdev.
Some ideas looks interesting enough to be implemented in Linux.

* http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/FreeBSD-5.3-Networking.pdf

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