That is a very interesting paper. Seriously, 7mpps with an off-the-shelf Dell 2950? Even if it were -half- that throughput, for a pure ethernet forwarding solution that is incredible. Shoot, buy a handful of them as hot spares and still save a bundle. Highly recommended reading, even if (like me) you're anti-commodity routing. Cheers, Randal On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008, Charles Wyble wrote:
This might be of interest:
Various FreeBSD related guys are working on parallelising the forwarding layer enough to use the multiple tx/rx queues in some chipsets such as the Intel gig/10ge stuff.
1 mil pps has been broken that way, but it uses lots of cores to get there. (8, I think?)
Linux apparently is/has headed down this path.