[Click] --enable-warp9: Question

Roman Chertov rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu
Tue Mar 3 15:14:56 EST 2009


I actually never did the comparison, but I usually use this option.  If 
you look at the code of PollDevice, then you will see that a lot of 
accounting is disabled if you use the warp9 option.  If you don't need 
it, then might as well save a few cycles.

Roman

Latency Buster wrote:
> ./configure file says  "--enable-warp9 : reduce PollDevice
> functionality for speed".  Can someone quantify how much performance
> improvement in packet polling is achieved by enabling this option?
> 
> Or better if it's a recommended practice with Click operating at an
> input link speed of >200Mbps (avg data rate)?
> 
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