em forwarding performance (was Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

[Mike Tancsa]

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

Are you saying

cpu             I586_CPU
cpu             I686_CPU

or just have

cpu             I586_CPU



>also... bde@ just commited some bzero-related optimizations to routing
>code.. might be work trying..


I think that was already in there, but I will cvsup upto today and 
see if there is any difference.

         ---Mike