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Date:      Thu, 09 May 2013 23:30:36 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru>
To:        Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?B?IkNsw6ltZW50IEhlcm1hbm4gKG5vZGVucyki?= <nodens2099@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: High CPU interrupt load on intel I350T4 with igb on 8.3
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On 09.05.2013 23:25, Barney Cordoba wrote:

>> Network device driver is not guilty here, that's just pf's
>> contention
>> running in igb's context.
>>
>> Eugene Grosbein
> 
> They're both at play. Single threadedness aggravates subsystems that 
> have too many lock points.
> 
> It can also be "solved" with using 1 queue, because then you don't
> have 4 queues going into a single thread.

Again, the problem is within pf(4)'s global lock, not in the igb(4).





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