* Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn@gmail.com> [2007-07-31 19:01]:
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> > the install with the highest forwarding rate I know of uses a
> > Supermicro X6DH8-XB, a 3.2 GHz Xeon and a bunch of em(4. I have
> > seen it doing 750 MBit/s of real-world traffic at approx 150k pps.
> > With a full routing table (~205k entries) and a GENERIC kernel it was
> > running at roughly 80..90% CPU load; the slightly optimized for the task
> > kernel I have in place there now gives quite some extra headroom. Also,
> > I expect sk/msk(4) to perform better than em(4), but that has yet to be
> > proven in real-world conditions.
> 
> Does this still hold true for 4.1? I'm in the same predicament --
> carte blanche on hardware, need high PPS and throughput with as low
> CPU usage as possible. I know there have been some signifigant chances
> in the tree; but scouring interesting commit messages and grepping the
> lists hasn't enlightened me much.

numbers above are from 4.1. -current should behave significantly better.

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