Re: CPU utilisation cap?

lukem.freebsd_at_cse.unsw.edu.au
Date: 10/25/04

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    To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
    Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:01:09 +1000 (EST)
    
    

    On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Sean Chittenden wrote:
    > There are two things that come to mind. The first being a patch that should
    > have been applied in time for 5.2, but I forget the timing of the releases.
    >
    > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/cvs-src/2003-October/012628.html
    >
    > IIRC, there was another commit that made a similar change specifically in the
    > handling of UDP packets, such that it used a TAILQ append instead of
    > traversing a linked list. For some reason I think this happened after 5.2,
    > but I'm not able to find high nor low of the commit and could be pulling said
    > memory into existence. Too many commits to keep track of.

    While this would reduce CPU utilisation at a given throughput, it doesn't
    account for the 20% of CPU time that is available but never used.

    -- 
    Luke
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