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Date:      Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:25:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: machdep.cpu_idle_hlt and SMP perf?
Message-ID:  <17383.23641.160764.974850@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060204111535.31e42861.lists@yazzy.org>
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Marcin Jessa writes:
 > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:51:14 -0500
 > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > On a 32 or 64-bits CPU?

This is on amd64.

Drew



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