On Jan 25, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 24/01/2012 17:53, Marcin Markowski wrote: >> On 24.01.2012 14:22, Ivan Voras wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Marcin >>>> Markowski<mmarkow...@leon.pl>wrote: >>> >>>>> (on 9.0 we can see also kernel thread named {ix0 que} using 100% CPU), >>> >>>>> hw.ixgbe.num_queues=16 >>> >>> If there really are 16 hardware queues, shouldn't there be 16 kernel >>> threads for queue processing? >> >> There are 16 threads, but only one of them consumes 100% CPU and the others >> do not use more than 5% CPU: >> >> http://pastebin.com/BWDWh8kW > > You need Jack to confirm it but this looks like a serious problem / > bottleneck. It just shouldn't be like that (if the test is exactly the same). >
Is this by any chance non-IP traffic (or encapsulated in some way). I remember similar thread : http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/igb-ixgbe-RSS-RX-queues-for-non-IP-traffic-td4778961.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"