Mailing List Archive: PF_RING (Vanilla) latency

Hi Eitan
did you try setting the pfring_send flush_packet parameter to 1?

int pfring_send(pfring *ring, char *pkt, u_int pkt_len, u_int8_t flush_packet);

Alfredo

> On 15 Aug 2019, at 08:42, Eitan Michaelson <eitanm@me.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Just completed a simple test and I'm not sure I'm getting the expected results..
> I'm unis pfring_recv() to collects packets and then doing immediately pfring_send() to send
> them back (on a different ring/ interface).
>
> Measuring this with an external sniffer shows around 1 second delay between
> the time that the packet was received and sent. This is the only process running on the PC (Core i7)
>
> 1. Does this makes any scene?
> 2. What can I do to speed things to a reasonable speed ?
>
> Thank you,
> Eitan.
>
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