Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:44:56 -0500 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Mike Tancsa' <mike@sentex.net>, Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: em0, polling performance, P4 2.8ghz FSB 800mhz Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D8328@mail.sandvine.com>
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From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike@sentex.net] > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 23:17:44 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hackers > > >If you want to spend more time in kernel, perhaps change > > > >I might have HZ @ 2500 as well. > > Hi, > Just curious as to the reasoning behind that ? @ high packet rates, you don't have enough DMA queues available to the em driver, and will drop. increasing the number of dma buffers will cause problems with cache occupancy. Increasing the HZ doesn't have a huge cost.
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