From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 14:56:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5BF16A41F; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:56:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7519143D62; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:55:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.50.41.234] (Not Verified[10.50.41.234]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:12:26 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: Scott Long Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:53:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200510172310.j9HNAVPL013057@repoman.freebsd.org> <200510200958.09182.jhb@freebsd.org> <4357AAFE.2070002@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4357AAFE.2070002@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510201053.03881.jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin , Bruce Evans , cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, David Xu Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 cpu_switch.S machdep.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:56:00 -0000 On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:34 am, Scott Long wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 01:45 am, Bruce Evans wrote: > >>On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Scott Long wrote: > >>I use 100 and never downgraded to use 1000 except for testing how bad > >>it is. The default number is now up to * 2 * HZ. > >>E.g., it is 4000 on sledge.freebsd.org. While 4000 interrupts/sec can > >>be handled easily by any new machine, 4000 is a disgustingly large > >>number to use for clock interrupts. Have a look at vmstat -i output > >>on almost any machine. On most machines in the freebsd cluster, the > >>total number of interrupts is dominated by clock interrupts even with > >>HZ = 100. > > > > Note that on 4.x you don't get to see the interrupt counts for the hz + > > stathz * (cpus - 1) IPIs for all the clock interrupts, so in real > > numbers, each CPU has gone from hz + stathz to hz * 2 interrupts. > > However, the higher number is offset by the fact that the interrupt > > handler for the lapic case doesn't have to touch any hardware, and it > > also works much more reliably (getting irq0 to work in APIC mode on some > > amd64 nvidia chipsets required several quirks, and future motherboards > > will probably continue to require quirks since Windows uses the APIC > > timer in APIC mode and doesn't require irq0 to work in APIC mode). > > I'm in complete argreement that using the APIC timer is the right thing > to do, and I believe that we did some tests to show that the high > interrupt rate didn't have an appreciable effect on performance. > However, I'd like to revisit the HZ=1000 decision for 7-CURRENT. > > Scott Agreed. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org