Subject: Re: RFC: NAPI packet weighting patch

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:21:35 -0400

On Thu, 2005-09-06 at 15:12 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > 313667    4.7884  vmlinux          csum_partial
> > > 218870    3.3413  vmlinux          _spin_lock
> > > 214302    3.2715  vmlinux          __copy_user_intel
> > > 193662    2.9564  vmlinux          skb_release_data
> > > 177755    2.7136  vmlinux          ipt_do_table
> > 
> > You are probably benchmarking iptables/netfilter! How many rules do you
> > have?
> 
> I saw that... somehow iptables got compiled into kernel statically.  no 
> rules are active or installed  iptables -L -n shows nothing in any chain.

Contracking is a lot worse of a problem. Just turn off netfilter all
together.

cheers,
jamal