Richard Underwood wrote: > Is 4000 packets a second reasonable on hardware like this? I found > an old message in an archive that considered 20kpps for sendto() on a raw > socket was slow. I had certainly been expecting more. > > Is SOCK_DGRAM significantly slower than SOCK_RAW for PF_PACKET? > Would an upgrade to a 2.5 kernel help? Where is the bottleneck likely to be? It might help to compile your kernel with the oprofile patch and profile the kernel under your test. You'd get an idea of whats taking time.. I believe oprofile support has been recently backported to 2.4.20 by Redhat. thanks, Nivedita - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
