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Date:      Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:53:23 +0100
From:      Marcin Markowski <mmarkowski@leon.pl>
To:        <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Performance problem using Intel X520-DA2
Message-ID:  <909994c3cdd84cb2c47ff8037c23e142@leon.pl>
In-Reply-To: <jfmbam$37c$1@dough.gmane.org>
References:  <a231a44c6c803075c7b456a6189ff6ce@leon.pl> <CAFOYbcksi7KBpEjH=-hHEoTr35ynwYk98Ushw9nzR27H%2BGVBFA@mail.gmail.com> <jfmbam$37c$1@dough.gmane.org>

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On 24.01.2012 14:22, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin 
>> Markowski<mmarkowski@leon.pl>wrote:
>
>>> (on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100% 
>>> CPU),
>
>>> hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16
>
> If there really are 16 hardware queues, shouldn't there be 16 kernel
> threads for queue processing?

There are 16 threads, but only one of them consumes 100% CPU and the 
others
do not use more than 5% CPU:

http://pastebin.com/BWDWh8kW

The same test but on the Intel SR1630GP, 1 CPU Xeon X3450 and FreeBSD 
8.2:

http://pastebin.com/vLib1kqE

-- 
Marcin Markowski




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