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From: Moon-Sang Lee <sang0627@gmail.com>
Subject: ksoftirqd when using KNI
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:53:37 +0900
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I'm a newbie and testing DPDK KNI with 1G intel NIC.

According to my understanding of DPDK documents,
KNI should not raise interrupts when sending/receiving packets.

But when I transmit bunch of packets to my KNI ports,
'top command' shows ksoftirqd with 50% CPU load.

Would you give me some comments about this situation?



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Moon-Sang Lee, SW Engineer
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Wisdom begins in wonder. *Socrates*