Fwd: Re: flowtable usable or not

O. Hartmann ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Sat Mar 3 12:54:08 UTC 2012



on 03/03/2012 13:44 O. Hartmann said the following:
> Back to the topic of the initial posting:
> 
> Where can I find documentation for the "idiot" about flowtable? I can 
> switch this to "ON" in the kernel config on FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE as well as
> in FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT. But I can not find any hint what it is supposed to
> do, what benefit it could provide or what working environment it is aimed
> to.
> 
> There are other kernel options, like IPI_PREEMPTION, which are very poor 
> "documented". I feel willing to switch on and off options and watch the 
> system's behaviour, but I'm not willing to find out what those options are
> for by running a uncountable number of benchmarks or tests.
> 
> It would be really nice to have a very intuitive way to find some "notes"
> on that. The "NOTES" files are not sufficient.

Maybe it would make sense to restore the original To/Cc list too?

-- 
Andriy Gapon

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