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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:10:35 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@moneybookers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interrupt performance
Message-ID:  <20110128161035.GF18170@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <22E77EED-6455-4164-9115-BBD359EC8CA6@moneybookers.com>
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 06:03:15PM +0200, Stefan Lambrev wrote:

> Do the test with netblast ;)
> Most perf tools are written badly and for Linux.
> In our internal test netblast running on freebsd outperform everything else.

I don't speak about bad performance.
I speak about overhead.

Linux: overhead 7% for 56K int/s
FreeBSD: overhead 59% for 14K int/s

For processing 1/4 interrupts FreeBSD need 8x CPU.

> P.S. - /usr/src/tools/tools/netrate/netblast - we have tested little more expensive card - em/igb and bce.
> 
> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> 
> > I test network performance and found some strange result -- on the
> > same hardware Linux more then 10x used CPU resources for interrupt
> > processing.
> > 
> > FreeBSD system utilise 70% CPU (32% idle, 59% interrupt, 9% sys) and
> > network card generate 14K-18K interrupt per second.
> > 
> > Linux system utilise 20% CPU (80% idle, 13% system, 3% hiq, 4% siq)
> > and network card generate 56K interrupt per second.
> > 
> > I used 'netperf -H host -t UDP_STREAM -l 60 -C -c -- -m 8972 -s
> > 128K -S 128K' for generate network traffic.
> > 
> > NIC:
> > 
> > re0: <RealTek 8169SC/8110SC Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xf0100000-0xf01000ff irq 19 at device 4.0 on pci11
> > re0: Chip rev. 0x18000000
> > re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
> > miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
> > rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> > 
> > 
> > CPU:
> > 
> > CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU          420  @ 1.60GHz (1596.05-MHz K8-class CPU)
> >  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x10661  Family = 6  Model = 16
> >  Stepping = 1
> >  Features=0xafebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE>
> >  Features2=0xe31d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>
> >  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
> >  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
> >  TSC: P-state invariant
> > 
> > RAM: one DDR2-667 DIMM.
> > 
> > OS: 8.2-RC2, amd64
> > 
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> 
> --
> Best Wishes,
> Stefan Lambrev
> ICQ# 24134177
> 
> 
> 
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