Hello, > I don't have the full context, but it seems like the complaint is a > performance regression in bonnie++ and perhaps other things when tcp_hpts is > loaded, even when it is not used. Is that correct? > > If so, I suspect its because we drive the tcp_hpts_softclock() routine from > userret(), in order to avoid tons of timer interrupts and context switches. > To test this theory, you could apply a patch like:
It's affecting overall system performance, bonnie was just a way to get some numbers to compare. Tomorrow I will test patch. Thanks! -- Nuno Teixeira FreeBSD Committer (ports)