two NIC on 2 core system (scheduling problem)

Oleksandr Samoylyk oleksandr at samoylyk.sumy.ua
Tue Oct 28 10:55:21 UTC 2008


Ivan Voras wrote:
> Bartosz Giza wrote:
> 
>> Another question is why em0 taskq is eating so much cpu ? BGE interface is 
>> actually one that pushes 2 times more packets than em0 and it uses about 
>> half cpu comparing to em0. Is that not strange ?
>> Could someone tell my why is this happening ? BGE is faster ? or maybe i can 
>> tune some
> 
> I have the same problem - em0 taskq eating incredible amounts of CPU. If
> you find a solution, contact me!
> 
> 

It could be not just a problem with em driver.
Firstly, it's good to make profiling and find out what exactly eats CPU 
time.

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  Oleksandr Samoylyk
  OVS-RIPE


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