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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:21:04 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using   FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2
Message-ID:  <gfsn81$46l$2@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <245613.95922.qm@web45809.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References:  <245613.95922.qm@web45809.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

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Won De Erick wrote:

> I compiled the following em driver for Intel NIC Pro (82571) w/ FreeBSD=
 7.1 Beta 2 on HPDL 585 machine having 16CPUs.
>=20
> http://people.yandex-team.ru/~wawa/
>=20
> With net.isr.direct=3D1, I made some changes on kthreads(default=3D2) f=
or em0 and em1's rx.
>=20
> dev.em.0.rx_kthreads: 6
> ....
> dev.em.1.rx_kthreads: 6
>=20
> With these settings, the result is:
>=20
> CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 57.2% system,  3.6% interrupt, 39.2% idle
> Mem: 17M Active, 7228K Inact, 156M Wired, 76K Cache, 21M Buf, 31G Free
> Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
>=20
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMA=
ND
>    52 root        1  43    -     0K    16K CPU12  c  41:38 100.00% em0_=
rx_kthread_1
>    51 root        1  43    -     0K    16K CPU3   3  41:38 100.00% em0_=
rx_kthread_0
>    54 root        1 -68    -     0K    16K CPU2   2  39:39 100.00% em1_=
txcleaner
>  1283 root        1  43    -     0K    16K CPU1   1  38:55 100.00% em0_=
rx_kthread_3
>  1282 root        1  43    -     0K    16K CPU10  a  38:55 100.00% em0_=
rx_kthread_2
>  1344 root        1  43    -     0K    16K CPU9   9  25:51 100.00% em0_=
rx_kthread_5
>  1343 root        1  43    -     0K    16K CPU4   4  25:51 100.00% em0_=
rx_kthread_4
>    12 root        1 171 ki31     0K    16K CPU14  e  44:28 91.70% idle:=
 cpu14

This is very interesting. Do you see real performance (network
throughput) increase?


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