Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I'd bet, with a high degree of confidence, that if you tried doing an IP > forwarding test with small packets, you'd find that performance > improvements are _not_ in the noise, unless your noise filter is set too > low.
I used the DIY perf PIT, and my observations are that there is a lot of noise in their test runs due to small sample sizes. > Another way to test would be to try doing performance runs with a 10g > card using something _other_ than TCP (UDP rx would be good). Look at > the improvements to the packets-per-second count rather than the thruput > numbers. :-) > > If you're not CPU bound, you won't see the benefit. Right. I wanted to run sanity tests to verify that I had not made things worse. Performance improvement was not a primary goal, so I did not spend many resources evaluating potential positive performance impact. -Seb
