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
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