Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264197AbTF0L1n (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:27:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264192AbTF0L1n (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:27:43 -0400 Received: from robur.slu.se ([130.238.98.12]:44552 "EHLO robur.slu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264190AbTF0L1k (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:27:40 -0400 From: Robert Olsson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16124.11592.136156.61126@robur.slu.se> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:40:56 +0200 To: "Adam Flizikowski" Cc: , Subject: How to do kernel packet forwarding performance analysys - please comment on my method In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 25 Adam Flizikowski writes: > > Hello, > > I want to analyze how much time is spent on forwarding process in linux > kernel. > > This is second post but the matter is very important to me. I am dealing > with this for few months now. Hello! "time spent on forwarding" is very vague. Raw forwarding capacity use to be measured in pps (packets per second) and it depends on many things beside hardware as packet size, routing table size, new flows/s etc. You can look at (o)profiles during forwarding. Cheers. --ro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/