[fbsd] Re: throughput and interrupts

[Luigi Rizzo]

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.

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 >
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