machdep.cpu_idle_hlt and SMP perf?

[Andrew Gallatin]

Kris Kennaway writes:
 > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:47:32PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > 
 > > Why dooes machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=1 drop my 10GbE network rx
 > > performance by a considerable amount (7.5Gbs -> 5.5Gbs)?
 > 
 > I don't know, but I've set this to 0 on my machines because I also
 > noticed a significant performance drop on general workloads with it
 > set to 1.

I think I'll follow your lead.  Good thing there is a cold snap
coming  ;)

Drew