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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:35:10 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, current@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange ping response times...
Message-ID:  <4F855E5E.5000107@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120410233211.GA53829@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20120410225257.GB53350@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4F84B6DB.5040904@freebsd.org> <20120410230500.GA22829@pit.databus.com> <20120410233211.GA53829@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On 11.04.2012 01:32, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 07:05:00PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote:
>> CPU cache?
>> Cx states?
>> powerd?
>
> powerd is disabled, and i am going down to C1 at most
> 	>  sysctl -a | grep cx
> 	hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1
> 	dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/1 C2/80 C3/104
>
> which shouldn't take so much. Sure, cache matters, but the
> fact is, icmp processing on loopback should occur inline.
>
> unless there is a forced descheduling on a select with timeout>  0
> which would explain the extra few microseconds (and makes me worry
> on how expensive is a scheduling decision...)

Things going through loopback go through a NETISR and may
end up queued to avoid LOR situations.  In addition per-cpu
queues with hash-distribution for affinity may cause your
packet to be processed by a different core.  Hence the additional
delay.

-- 
Andre



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