Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:04:35 +0200 | From | "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] add a config option for -Os compilation |
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Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> Previously Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: >> >>> The goal of kernel is to provide framework for applications to the >>> job well. >> >> >> I doubt anyone using linux for routing would agree with you. >> > > This is different matter. > This is IO bound task - and I'm not sure how -Os will perform there. > But still this depends on routing protocols and their requirements. > > In any way in this case bottleneck is PCI bus (DMA over PCI from NIC > to main memory and back). I bet software will show up in timing tests as > taking <10% of whole time. >
Sorry I mean't calculations and alike will take <10%. Sure in case of software router 90% of time will be spent in CPU.
-- Ihar 'Philips' Filipau / with best regards from Saarbruecken. -- "... and for $64000 question, could you get yourself vaguely familiar with the notion of on-topic posting?" -- Al Viro @ LKML
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