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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:35:35 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serious server-side NFS problem 
Message-ID:  <199912190035.QAA01419@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:35:12 PST." <199912180535.VAA67191@apollo.backplane.com> 

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> :That's interesting then, since your results are somewhat at odds with 
> :what I've seen so far regarding interrupt load for network traffic.  Do 
> :you have any profiling results that point the finger more directly at 
> :anything?
> :
> :-- 
> 
>     Ok, here is the kernel gprof output for one of my -current test
>     boxes.  This one is a duel 450 MHz P-III but running a UP kernel,
>     and a built-in intel ethernet.
...
>     I've included the entire gprof output below, but the pertainant section
>     is #8 and #9 indicating that 19.8% of the cpu is being eaten in the 
>     fxp interrupt code.
> 
>     The lion's share appears to be fxp_add_rfabuf(), which takes 10% of
>     the cpu all by itself (see #11), and most of that appears to be in
>     the splx() code, which seems bogus but that is what it says.  I 
>     presume the splimp()/splx() calls it is making are coming from the
>     MBUF macros.

Hmm, interesting.  Do you have a 3C905B kicking around there somewhere 
that you could repeat the profiling run with?  I must admit I hadn't had 
a chance to look at a profile dump using fxp, and this comes as a bit of 
a surprise.


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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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