From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmytro O. Redchuk" Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:11:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Dual CPU performance in routing Message-Id: <20061106101152.GA28087@ldc.net> List-Id: References: <183728573.20061106105325@mtm-info.pl> In-Reply-To: <183728573.20061106105325@mtm-info.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:53:25AM +0100, GolemMTM wrote: > Hello > > I have question, currently using linux box as router. It only route packets. > Currently there is 80k packets/sec and this cause 90% CPU usage on > Intel Celeron 3ghz CPU. > Did multiprocessor system like 2x XEON DP 3.4ghz will divide CPU > usage between 2 CPU and will allow double routing performance ? If you have two physical eth cards and will assign different irq for different CPU -- it will. Not sure about double, but significant, i'd say. > > > -- > Golem -- _,-=._ /|_/| `-.} `=._,.-=-._., @ @._, `._ _,-. ) _,.-' ` G.m-"^m`m' Dmytro O. Redchuk _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc