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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 2014 00:27:15 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        rmacklem@freebsd.org
Subject:   ixgbe/NFS m_defrag() instrumentation
Message-ID:  <21233.52147.912022.488615@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>

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I instrumented calls to m_defrag() in ixgbe.  As expected, it gets
called *a lot* when NFS is running with the default read size of 64k.
A simple benchmark (single-threaded sequential read of a 128 GB file
which I didn't even run to completion) tells the tale:

$ sysctl dev.ix.0.mbuf_defrag_attempted
dev.ix.0.mbuf_defrag_attempted: 1737994

(There's already a similar counter for m_defrag() failures, which made
it easy to add this counter.  Unfortunately, there is no analogous
instrumentation in cxgbe so I couldn't do likewise for that NIC.)

-GAWollman




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