svn commit: r272906 - in head/sys: conf libkern netpfil/pf sys

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 17 00:07:27 UTC 2014


  Luigi,

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 01:04:46AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
L> > Thanks a lot, Ed. I rerun the tests. Results are fine. Distribution
L> > is equal (plots attached).
L> > 
L> > Murmur is 9% +/- 1.5% faster. Sorry for noise.
L> 
L> is that 9% on the hash alone ?

Right.

L> If so it is surprising that you could see any change on pf's throughput.
L> In my very non-scientific tests with VALE, doing two hashes on
L> the MAC address would result in 17 Mpps vs 20 Mpps when no hashes were done.
L> The difference is about 8ns, which is totally in the noise at 2 Mpps or less.

We share exactly the same position here. Notice also, that Olivier also run
tests that showed no change. May be George's tests were on single state?

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