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Date:      Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:53:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: machdep.cpu_idle_hlt and SMP perf?
Message-ID:  <17379.57055.535149.295156@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060203225114.GA9845@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <17379.56708.421007.613310@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20060203225114.GA9845@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway writes:
 > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:47:32PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > 
 > > Why dooes machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=1 drop my 10GbE network rx
 > > performance by a considerable amount (7.5Gbs -> 5.5Gbs)?
 > 
 > I don't know, but I've set this to 0 on my machines because I also
 > noticed a significant performance drop on general workloads with it
 > set to 1.

I think I'll follow your lead.  Good thing there is a cold snap
coming  ;)

Drew




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