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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:39:07 +0800
From:      Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <ganbold@gmail.com>
To:        Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT on ARM: performance and load average
Message-ID:  <CAGtf9xNh1sWw2d7Jd1hN5R%2BML1WdfEpEYZZQc7eRG=2spWUC=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140921023708.GA29778@hades.panopticon>
References:  <7351653.A2UeEk9AA3@quad> <20140921023708.GA29778@hades.panopticon>

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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> wrote:

> * Maxim V FIlimonov (che@bein.link) wrote:
>
> > Recently, I encountered a problem with -CURRENT on an ARM board
> (cubieboard2
> > to be precise). The problem was that the load average was above 2.
> Including
> > the fact that the board has 2 CPU cores, that's strange. Also, the
> network
> > throughput was way too slow: from 3 kilobytes per second earlier to
> 20..50
> > about now.
> >
> > Here's a workaround for that:
> > > sysctl kern.eventtimer.periodic=1
> > With that, the network performance increased while LA decreased to a
> decent
> > 0.3..0.5.
>
> I'm just started to experiment with cubieboard (1) as well.
>
> I've also noticed poor network performance at first, however later
> (without any tuning) it gave out 111 kBps. kern.eventtimer.periodic
> doesn't seem to affect it.
>

As for EMAC driver, RX performance is poor right now. Please see some info
at:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Ethernet#EMAC

It needs improvement with the assistance of external DMA controller (dma
driver) in case there is bulk TCP receiver.

Ganbold



>
> I've also played with clocks a bit, and was able to increase CPU
> rate 3x by configuring PLL1. I've experienced some instability later
> (board doesn't always boot from USB, perl build fails), and now I'm
> checking if reclocking was the cause.
>
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