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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:29:51 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Sergey Lobanov <wmn@siberianet.ru>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>, "freebsd-pf@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pf@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: High interrupt rate on a PF box + performance
Message-ID:  <4D429A9F.8040307@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=JYFNkXBGdmrt%2B0pq4PJZS=9gG-iV1OMOSkew3@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/27/11 10:44 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
> 
> The 8.X kernel is NOT single-threaded. Anything but. And the stack has
> also been improved, I believe there are still bottlenecks but its far better
> than the old days.
> 
> The igb driver in 8.2 creates up to 8 queues on the right hardware, they
> are each auto-bound to a particular CPU.
> 
> The older version you are running had issues and hence multiqueue was
> not enabled.  So, do upgrade once 8.2 is finalized :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jack
> 

Going to push for us to install 8.2 as soon as the release hits, thanks
for your feedback Jack :)



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