On 06/28/2012 10:36 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I haven't looked at the code, but it wouldn't surprise me if multicast fanout > sucked. Multicast traffic is generally considered by *many* nic drivers and > IP stacks to be lower bandwidth than unicast (a *lot* lower), and often gets > "slowpath" treatment. Its a little surprising to me that you have enough > multicast traffic to justify running in polled mode.
That might have been true in the olden days, but certainly since the advent of IPTV (which is what I'm doing) multicast is a non-trivial contributor. Can you please point me where in the code to look for this myself? All the best, -- Saso ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
