em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

[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:
> >> >
> >> >> I might give OpenBSD a quick try as a reference.
> >> >
> >> >That would be very interesting.
> >>
> >> OpenBSD 4.0 i386 panics on boot.
> >>
> >> I also posted some results with PMC compiled into the kernel
> >>
> >> ipfw compiled into the kernel, with 1 rule
> >>
> >> http://www.tancsa.com/pmc/
> >
> >I see generic_bzero/bcopy used quite often. why dont you define
> >cpu             I586_CPU
> >in your kernel config?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had
> 
> cpu             I486_CPU
> cpu             I586_CPU
> cpu             I686_CPU
 
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.