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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:18:11 -0400
From:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Subject:   Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.
Message-ID:  <16742.48579.673252.78665@canoe.dclg.ca>
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20041008120745.106ae7b0@64.7.153.2>
References:  <16742.40802.187425.402461@canoe.dclg.ca> <6.1.2.0.0.20041008120745.106ae7b0@64.7.153.2>

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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> writes:

Mike> At 10:08 AM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote:
>> Right out of the box, FreeBSD 5.3 (with polling) passed about 200
>> kpps.  net.isr.enable=1 increased that without polling to about 220

Mike> Did you have kern.polling.idle_poll at 0 or 1 ? In my tests a
Mike> few weeks ago this seemed to make a difference, but the load avg
Mike> gets messed up.  Also, HZ does seem to make a difference at
Mike> least in my tests on BETA5.

I can confirm the HZ not making a sizable difference (although I
believe it cuts polling latency under ligher load, so we used 10000 by
default and we tested 1000).

Idle_poll is default 1, I'm not positive we tested 0.  I don't think
there is much idle time here.

Dave.

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