Re: 4.7 vs 5.2.1 SMP/UP bridging performance

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 05/04/04

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To: Gerrit Nagelhout <gnagelhout@sandvine.com>

    On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:55:32PM -0400, Gerrit Nagelhout wrote:

    > I would like to move to CURRENT for new hardware support, and the
    > ability to properly use multi-threading in user-space, but can't do
    > this until the performance bottlenecks are solved. I realize that
    > 5.x is still a work in progress and hasn't been tuned as well as 4.7
    > yet, but are there any plans for optimizations in this area? Does
    > anyone have any suggestions on what else I can try?

    Try rwatson's netperf patches:

      http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/

    There is at least one outstanding panic condition known, but more
    testing will be a great help.

    Kris

    P.S. You didn't mention the status of WITNESS, but I'm assuming you
    read the docs and disabled it since it's a huge performance killer.

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