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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:09:41 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serious server-side NFS problem 
Message-ID:  <199912172009.MAA00768@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:07:56 PST." <199912171707.JAA63193@apollo.backplane.com> 

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> :<<On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:55:26 -0800, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> said:
> :
> :> the IP and UDP checksum guessing, but more that I think you'll find that 
> :> a considerable amount of the inbound NFS traffic handling is actually 
> :> performed in the interrupt context
> :
> :If it is, then there is a serious bug.
> 
>     No serious NFS traffic handling is done in the interrupt context.  The
>     packets are essentially just queued up for nfsd to deal with.

That's interesting then, since your results are somewhat at odds with 
what I've seen so far regarding interrupt load for network traffic.  Do 
you have any profiling results that point the finger more directly at 
anything?

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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