[c-nsp] 6500 SUP720 High Latency and Jitter issues

[Rodney Dunn]

Very unlikely given that some features require it even
though the flows themselves can be accelerated.
ie: NAT, multicast, etc..

Rodney

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:12:19PM +0200, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> > The 76xx in that context is more like a 75xx than a GSR.
> > The GSR doesn't have a punt path to the main CPU that
> > handles the control plane work but the 76xx does. There
> > is a punt path on some LC's that have HW forwarding
> > capability to the LC CPU for packet forwarding. Same issue
> > applies there that performance quickly goes down if
> > that happens.
> 
> So can we have a knob that turns off any possibility of using the
> punt path?
> 
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no