4.7 vs 5.2.1 SMP/UP bridging performance

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:55:32PM -0400, Gerrit Nagelhout wrote:

> I would like to move to CURRENT for new hardware support, and the 
> ability to properly use multi-threading in user-space, but can't do
> this until the performance bottlenecks are solved.  I realize that 
> 5.x is still a work in progress and hasn't been tuned as well as 4.7 
> yet, but are there any plans for optimizations in this area?  Does 
> anyone have any suggestions on what else I can try?

Try rwatson's netperf patches:

  http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/

There is at least one outstanding panic condition known, but more
testing will be a great help.

Kris

P.S. You didn't mention the status of WITNESS, but I'm assuming you
read the docs and disabled it since it's a huge performance killer.
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