High interrupt rate on a PF box + performance

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 1/27/11 10:44 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
> 
> The 8.X kernel is NOT single-threaded. Anything but. And the stack has
> also been improved, I believe there are still bottlenecks but its far better
> than the old days.
> 
> The igb driver in 8.2 creates up to 8 queues on the right hardware, they
> are each auto-bound to a particular CPU.
> 
> The older version you are running had issues and hence multiqueue was
> not enabled.  So, do upgrade once 8.2 is finalized :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jack
> 

Going to push for us to install 8.2 as soon as the release hits, thanks
for your feedback Jack :)