[Click] Click polling extensions

[Lan Xue]

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Giorgio Calarco wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lan Xue" <lanxue at soe.ucsc.edu>
> To: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:38 PM
> Subject: [Click] Click polling extensions
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering anyone can talk about the Click polling extensions. What
> > is it about and what device driver(s) need to be tuned to take advantage
> > of it. And anyone has experience of approximately how much more packets
> > Click can forward after enabling the polling extensions?
>
> hi,
>
> it dependes a lot on the kind of hardware you have.
> Some other examples (in addition to the papers):
>
> - Intel PRO 1000 nic + PCI 1.0 bus  + 1.6 Ghz Pentium III -> 350Kpps
> - Intel PRO 1000 nic + PCIX  bus + double 2.8 Ghz Xeon -> 1250Kpps
>

In the above examples, is it machine to machine test or test within router
machine using InfiniteSource() as traffic generator? If it's machine to
machine test, could you tell what ethernet cards were using(over 1Gbps I
guess?)?

What's the packet size for the above examples?

Cheers,

Lan
>
> ciao
> giorgio
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