From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] fastroute dead code... Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:26:36 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <578EC36E-E498-11D8-939F-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com> References: <9DFF23E1E33391449FDC324526D1F25902833769@sjc1exm02.pmc_nt.nt.pmc-sierra.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , , , , Ralf Baechle Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9DFF23E1E33391449FDC324526D1F25902833769@sjc1exm02.pmc_nt.nt.pmc-sierra.bc.ca> To: Manish Lachwani Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I want to say an internal group in Freescale has seen similar style performance improvements for integrated gig-e controllers in 2.4. - kumar On Jul 30, 2004, at 3:31 PM, Manish Lachwani wrote: > Is this a 2.6 issue or a 2.4 issue? This is because I am using 2.4.21 > kernel and so do the customers of the board. This board supports 1.0 > Ghz PMC-Sierra Rm9000 processor. With fast routing, the IP forwarding > numbers are about 900 Kpps. While in the case where there is no fast > routing, the numbers are about 450 Kpps (NAPI enabled) > > I still have not done any 2.6 benchmarking since the board support is > not completely functional in 2.6 as yet. > > Thanks > Manish > > -----Original Message----- > From: jamal [mailto:hadi@cyberus.ca] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:35 PM > To: Manish Lachwani > Cc: Jeff Garzik; tmattox@gmail.com; netdev@oss.sgi.com; Ralf Baechle > Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] fastroute dead code... > > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 16:10, David S. Miller wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:35:15 -0400 >> Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >>> It is dead code, as-is, in the kernel. It would require patches to >>> actually work at all. >>> >>> It is impossible that fastrouting is being actively used, without >>> patches. >> >> I totally agree. And people can always resurrect it from the >> repository history or an old tarball if they wish. > > Patches are needed for the driver to use that code. So its not entirely > dead code i.e it is referenced from fastroute enabled drivers. > Sample (really old) code found at: > http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/fastroute/ > > >> I think it should be killed entirely, and that's what I'm going >> to do. > > Nod from here. > Before you kill it lets hear from Ralf who is acquinted with someone > that uses it and sings praises of it (although i personaly dont believe > it ;->). > > cheers, > jamal