Lesson learned from working with slow HW crypto card

Correction to my previous message: the crypto_proc kernel thread is not running at SWI_NET pri level, instead it is a regular kernel thread. The impact to the user processes is the same. ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Lesson learned from working with slow HW crypto card

This is a lesson I learned from working with a slow HW crypto card in the presence of the GbE interface. Hope it is helpful to others when they run into the same issue. We are using a 200Mpps HW crypto card on a FreeBSD 5.3 system as a GbE gateway. With ~700Mbps traffic inbound for encryp

User process starvation under heavy network traffic in FreeBSD 5.3

alue of all kernel priority values, ie the lowest kernel priority. Hopefully this change would work and not be intrusive to the kernel. Thank you for your comments in advance. Youlin Feng ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb