How to do kernel packet forwarding performance analysys - please comment on my method

From: Robert Olsson (Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 06:40:56 EST


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
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