[c-nsp] DFC3CXL CPU

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Tue Nov 16 03:19:49 EST 2010


On 11/16/2010 04:13 AM, Benjamin Lovell wrote:
> What he said, while adding that the CPU on the DFC is the same CPU as
> the SP on the PFC. DFC can still see pretty significant CPU usage as
> even if the RP or SP is doing the export the DFC CPU must still do all
> the recored creation, aging, etc. Very fast aging timers drive up the
> DFC CPU usage as this is the bulk of the work. Exporting is really
> just wrapping up the DFC made records in an IP packet to correct
> destination.

All interesting stuff; thanks guys


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