Hi, > limitations of interrupt driven I/O. Interrupts are expensive, and when > you're pushing 100Mbit of data, that's 100k Interrupts/sec. Eventually, > interrupts are so frequent that the machine is not able to do anything > useful between them and the interrupt handlers consume all of the CPU's > time. I suspect this is what is happening. That would explain why the > throughput goes down when you pound the machine harder (more interrupts > consume more time, and the ability of the machine to process packets > decreases).
yes, we thought about it but then i found that cpu is not reaching its max. utilization. During these experiments, cpu was used 17%. It was idle for 83%. Thanks for your pointer to another project. Thanks -Kunal _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
