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@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:35 PM
To: Manish Lachwani
Cc: Jeff Garzik; tmattox@xxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx; 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 <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> 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