[fbsd] Re: throughput and interrupts

[Julian Elischer]

Luigi Rizzo wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:53:36PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>>>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.
>>>>
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>>>in 6.1 there is an in kernel version of natd..
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>>>man ng_nat
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>>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.
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libalias is already there.

>
>Paolo Pisati is now a committer and hopefully will commit
>that stuff when he will be done with his current SoC work
>
>cheers
>luigi
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>>Thank you,
>>-- 
>>Jeremie Le Hen
>>< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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