RE: [Question] SMP for Linux

[Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Fraser writes:
 > 
 > What was your cpu utilization like in the bound vs split scenarios?
 
 Not measured. Gonna take a look w. varient of Manfred's loadtest when  
 possible. But measuring the CPU this way also gives affects throughput. 
 Other softirq's are allowed to run as well now. :-)

 Over 1 Mpps was injected into eth0 so a good assumption is that for UP 
 all CPU is used but with SMP we might have some...
 
 > Does your e1000 driver have transmit interrupts enabled or disabled?
 
 transmit?  

 > I'd be really interested to see the results with two flows in opposite
 > directions.

 Me too.

 Cheers.
                                                --ro