On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:12:29PM +0200, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 10.25, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:17:58AM +0200, Per-Olov Sjvholm wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 April 2006 23.08, Claudio Jeker wrote: ... > > > Hi Claudio > > > > > > What cpu, network cards and pf ruleset size did you use during the test > > > when the server handled 450kpps ? > > > > CPU (actually two CPUs on the board): > > cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) > > cpu0: AMD Engineering Sample, 2592.68 MHz > > cpu0: > > FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CF > > LUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW > > cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 1MB > > 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB > > entries fully associative cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 > > 4MB entries fully associative > > > > Network cards: > > bge0 at pci2 dev 9 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5704C" rev 0x03, BCM5704 A3 > > (0x2003): irq 10, address 00:e0:81:27:e0:a9 > > brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 > > bge1 at pci2 dev 9 function 1 "Broadcom BCM5704C" rev 0x03, BCM5704 A3 > > (0x2003): irq 5, address 00:e0:81:27:e0:aa > > brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 > > > > PF was disabled (enabling PF with 10 or 20 rules (no states) resulted in a > > 20-30% drop) > > > > At the time we measured it em(4) was slower (300-350kpps) but fixes went in > > to remove the bottlenecks in the em(4) driver. > > > Thanks for the info... > > Do you know when these fixes for em went into cvs? After 3.8 ? >
The fixes are in 3.9 they were commited beginning of this year. -- :wq Claudio
