machdep.cpu_idle_hlt and SMP perf?

[Andrew Gallatin]

Andre Oppermann writes:
 > Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > Why dooes machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=1 drop my 10GbE network rx
 > > performance by a considerable amount (7.5Gbs -> 5.5Gbs)?

<...>

 > This may be the same problem OpenBSD has fixed last year in the handling
 > of the idle loop.  From the kerneltrap posting:

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 > First commit message:
 >   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=111692513727274&w=2
 > 
 > The MFC with all changes in one commit message:
 >   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=111859519015510&w=2

The bug they fixes was missing interrupts by both calling APM's idle
routine, which may hlt, and hlt'ing in the idle loop itself.  Since I
have no idea what acpi is doing, I got excited about this.

Alas, it seems like this isn't it.  I pointed cpu_idle_hook back to
cpu_idle_default and away from acpi_cpu_idle, but that made no
difference.

Drew