Hi, In a few weeks I'll switch to a symmetric 1Gbps PPPoE based internet connection. My current understanding is that pppoe(4) makes use of one CPU core at most, and that it can be a challenge to attain full symmetric 1Gbps throughput under all circumstances.
My router has a 4 core "Intel(R) Pentium(R) Gold G6400 CPU @ 4.00GHz", which works great for my current DHCP-based connection (1Gbps down / 100 Mbps up). Initially I'll be configuring the new PPPoE connection on this system and see how it performs. This lead me to a question about newer CPUs with "P" and "E" cores, and how they work on OpenBSD. On which type of core would the pppoe(4) processing end up? And what (if any) difference would that make? When getting a system with different CPU core types, is this something that Just Works, or is it advisable to for example disable the "E" core types in the BIOS? Regards, Jurjen Oskam
