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Authored by kp on Jan 11 2022, 9:04 PM.
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Summary

Switch from software interrupts to taskqueues. This both prepares the
code to add RSS support, and handle the receive side of things in a
multi-core fashion, but also improve performance in many setups. It
especially improves setup B (see below).

Benchmark results:

Setup A: (cc0 - bridge0 - epair0a) (epair0b - bridge1 - cc1)

Before 346.223 Kpps
After 1.168 Mpps

Setup B: (cc0 - bridge0 - epaira0) (epair0b - vnet jail - epair1a) (epair1b - bridge1 - cc1)

Before 7.705 Kpps
After 1.011 Mpps

MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: Orange Business Services

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rS FreeBSD src repository - subversion
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Buildable 43865
Build 40753: arc lint + arc unit