What mips board is this? NAPI based?
I would say that you should get higher numbers with 2.6.x.
Are you running any sort of apps that need gettimeofday?
I have certainly seen higher numbers on 2.6 vs 2.4 starting at some
point where Andis gettimeofday patch went in - but this was on x86.
cheers,
jamal
On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 20:52, Song Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for the network packet routing
> performance comparison between the latest 2.4
> and 2.6 kernel.
>
> I did some initial testing on my mips-based router.
> 2.6 kernel (2.6.8.1) performed way below 2.4 kernel
> (2.4.17). It sucks. Turning on preemption on 2.6
> kernel even makes routing performance worse.
>
> Anybody did a comprehensive study on the routing
> performance for 2.6 and 2.4 kernel?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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