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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:08:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Kuschak <bkuschak@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: routing performance w/embedded linux on ppc?
To: "Vladimir A. Gurevich" <vag@paulidav.org>
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Hi Vlad,

>
> Starting with 2.4.19 or so, I'd recommend looking at
> NAPI to do
> interrupt mitigation instead. Please look at
> ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/
>

Yes, it looks interesting!  I'm glad this is being
introduced as a mechanism for all drivers to use.

I haven't had time to study it in detail, but I'm a
little concerned about NAPI using the softirq context.
 In the 2.4 kernels I've seen various performance
issues related to ksoftirqd.  Perhaps this has been
fixed in 2.6...

> > On top of that, you can implement
> > CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE in the driver, bypassing most
> of
> > the IP stack.
>
> But, of course, you'll loose IP tables. Also,

Yes, an important point.

-Brian


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