Network Performance: SMP 2.4 vs 2.6

[Harald Welte]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:53:32AM +0100, Jens Hektor wrote:
> Load is generated by having throughput of ~400Mbits (day-average) with
> heavy connection-tracking (200k - 300k conntrack states).
> 
> Load on machine A is distributed over 2 CPUs,
> load on machine B is tied to one CPU.
> Hyperthreading is enabled on both.
> 
> Can someone hint me in the right direction
> which tunable to set to get the 2.4 behaviour on 2.6?

probably you or your distribution configured irq_affinity in a way to
route all NIC interrupts to one particular cpu.


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- Harald Welte <laforge at netfilter.org>             http://www.netfilter.org/
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