CPU usage inaccuracy for taskqueue
Barney Cordoba
barney_cordoba at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 1 07:22:02 PST 2009
I've been playing with the ige driver and as a test shifted the entire
receive load to a task instead of doing it in the msix_rx routine by simply
launching a receive task whenever an interrupt is generated. When doing so
and applying a moderate load, top readings show:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K RUN 3 6:31 100.00% idle: cpu3 12 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K CPU2 2 6:30 100.00% idle: cpu2 13 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K CPU1 1 6:29 100.00% idle: cpu1
14 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K CPU0 0 6:23 99.17% idle: cpu0
42 root 1 -68 - 0K 8K - 0 0:07 7.47% igb1 taskq
clearly the cpu idle thread values aren't correct. This is the case in
both 7.0 and 7.1. Since the point of my testing is to experiment with
schemes for spreading loads better, I'm not able to learn anything with
the lack of usable feedback. Is there a simple fix?
Barney
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