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stucky101_88485
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Feb 24, 2013

Adding irules to vip that loop over DGL that are normally empty - ok practise ?

Gurus   I have been doing a lot of work recently utilizing data group lists since they are simply awesome and I'm always trying to separate code from data.   I use them as simple arrays for lis...
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Feb 24, 2013
So in other words my extra 2 irules at the end of each vs cost roughly 20k cycles of overhead per vs. i think you had better re-test on your unit.

 

 

Question is - is this significant enough to worry.my cpu clock speed is 2,666,761,000 cycles per second (2666.761 MHz). so, based on irules runtime calculator, it takes 0.000374987% cpu utilization per request.

 

 

irule timing: how to convert Cycles to Seconds

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/community/group/aft/23451/asg/50

 

 

irules runtime calculator

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/downloads/techtips/F5DevCentral_iRulesRuntimeCalculator.zip