dummynet: waking up pipe

[Evgenii Davidov]

Здравствуйте,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:46:28PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo пишет:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:35:35PM +0300, Evgenii Davidov wrote:
> ...
> > > > > my problem is that dummynet cpu usage jumps from 0 to 99%:
> > > > > 
> > > > >    33 root        1 -68    -     0K     8K -       1 512.6H 86.18% dummynet
> > > > >    33 root        1 -68    -     0K     8K -       1 512.6H 85.89% dummynet
> > > > >    33 root        1 -68    -     0K     8K -       1 512.6H 88.28% dummynet
> > > > >    33 root        1 -68    -     0K     8K -       0 512.6H 78.17% dummynet
> > > > >    33 root        1 -68    -     0K     8K -       0 512.6H  0.88% dummynet
> > > > >    33 root        1 -68    -     0K     8K -       1 512.6H  0.10% dummynet
> > > > >    33 root        1 -68    -     0K     8K -       1 512.7H  0.00% dummynet
> > > > >    33 root        1 -68    -     0K     8K -       1 512.7H  0.10% dummynet
> > > 
> > > i am not too clear on why this happens -- there shuold be only
> > > one instance of the dummynet thread, not 8 as in your case.
> > 
> > no-no, one instance, it's a grep of a top log
> 
> ok then it's rather normal -- the task wakes up every millisecond and
> it might have hundreds of packets to send at once, especially when
> the machine is heavily loaded as in your case.

but since i restricted dummunet to run only on cpu 0 it's much better
maybe it's some smp problem in freebsd7

-- 
Evgenii V Davidov