Hi,
The mips CPU on the board is MIPS32 compatible.
I don't think it's NAPI based.
The gettimeofday patch you mentioned came into
the 2.6 kernel at what version?
Do you think it's related to HZ change from 100
to 1000? Actually I did change HZ back to 100,
but it didn't help.
-Song
--- jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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