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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:01:09 +1000 (EST)
From:      lukem.freebsd@cse.unsw.edu.au
To:        Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CPU utilisation cap?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410251100210.6020@wagner.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
In-Reply-To: <1F92711A-238A-11D9-9171-000A95C705DC@chittenden.org>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410211419480.8238@wagner.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <1F92711A-238A-11D9-9171-000A95C705DC@chittenden.org>

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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> There are two things that come to mind.  The first being a patch that should 
> have been applied in time for 5.2, but I forget the timing of the releases.
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/cvs-src/2003-October/012628.html
>
> IIRC, there was another commit that made a similar change specifically in the 
> handling of UDP packets, such that it used a TAILQ append instead of 
> traversing a linked list.  For some reason I think this happened after 5.2, 
> but I'm not able to find high nor low of the commit and could be pulling said 
> memory into existence.  Too many commits to keep track of.

While this would reduce CPU utilisation at a given throughput, it doesn't
account for the 20% of CPU time that is available but never used.

-- 
Luke



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