From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 18:17:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DC137B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp01.net-yan.com (smtp01.net-yan.com [210.0.255.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A80D43F85 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mshiu@net-yan.com) Received: (qmail 9184 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2003 01:17:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO athena) ([203.184.192.193]) (envelope-sender ) by localhost (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Jun 2003 01:17:10 -0000 Message-ID: <014901c32bc9$4c7a9a30$650019ac@athena> From: "Michael Shiu" To: "Vincent Jardin" , "Julian Elischer" References: <200306052213.35422.vjardin@wanadoo.fr> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:16:45 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does Netgraph in FBSD 5.x SMP requires GIANT lock? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 01:17:12 -0000 I am using DEVICE_POLLING by Lugzi Rizzo and connecting 2 em devices using NG_ETHER with NG_BRIDGE. Actually, I am planning to make a netgraph node to do some filtering but as a performance prototype, I am getting those results mentioned. i.e. em0 - NG_ETHER - NG_BRIDGE - NG_ETHER - em1 The polling code currently does not work in SMP environments but with some patchwork, I probably can make it work. But I am not clear if the netgraph framework has other limitations. rgds, _Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vincent Jardin" To: "Julian Elischer" ; "Michael Shiu" Cc: Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:13 AM Subject: Re: Does Netgraph in FBSD 5.x SMP requires GIANT lock? Maybe one giant2thread node could be introduced into the graphs. It could put the messages and the mbufs into a queue from a giant context, then they could be processed from a thread. Is it a possible architecture or do I forget something ? Regards, Vincent Le Jeudi 5 Juin 2003 13:38, Julian Elischer a écrit : > On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Michael Shiu wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Just like to know if the netgraph code running 5.x SMP kernel requires > > the GIANT lock? > > Netgraph has lovking built into it but I have not > had teh time yet to "thrown the switch" and run it without > giant. (actually it would only have giant if the edge node that > introduces the packet has giant, or if it's running > as a net thread.) > > What is your graph like? > > > I have the netgraph doing bridging right now but the performance is > > limited by the CPU (right now, it is something around 100k pkt/s in > > 4-STABLE). Does adding another CPU together with upgrading to 5.x be of > > any help? I guess the bottleneck right now is only one thread is > > executing in interrupt context with GIANT being held. Am I right? > > > > _Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"