For use cases where DPDK matters, are you really concerned with power consumption?
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:48 AM Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > Etienne-Victor Depasquale wrote on 23/02/2021 16:03: > > "we found that a poll mode driver (PMD) > > thread accounted for approximately 99.7 percent > > CPU occupancy (a full core utilization)." > > interrupt-driven network drivers generally can't compete with polled > mode drivers at higher throughputs on generic CPU / PCI card systems. > On this style of config, you optimise your driver parameters based on > what works best under the specific conditions. > > Polled mode drivers have been around for a while, e.g. > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=87902 > > Nick >
