DP performance

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Wed Apr 27 09:19:59 PDT 2005


Danial Thom wrote:
I wonder why/how you say that? Interrupt livelock
has always been a way of life with FreeBSD 4.Its
fairly easy to reach while bridging with a large
number of firewall rules with an fxp or em
driver.
Just increase the rate until you lose the 
keyboard. What is your idea of a "modern"
adapter?

Is there a way to direct specific interrupt 
activity to a single processor, or to tune the
behaviours in any way? It seems absurd that there
is no networking benefit to adding another
processor two years into the project.

Danial
	Unless you are ready to write support for interrupt affinity, cleanup
	the APIC code to use logical topology and do the necessary cleanups to
	the PCI interrupt routing code, these things take time.
	But yes, support for interrupt affinity is in the list of things that
	need to be done.
	The amount of hands at DragonFly's kernel code are limited.

	Kind regards,

				-Hiten
				Hiten Pandya
				hmp at xxxxxxxxxxxxx




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