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Feature #14252

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Optimization for 10GB-Connection/Throughput

Added by Dieter Kreuz over 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

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Hardware / Drivers
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Description

Tuning a 10GB Connection, i´ve spent many days to get the most performance out of pfSense.

I´ve found the following commands, which drastically improved the throughput - peak-wise and providing a consistent throughput without dips:

This binds one core/Thread to a queue - i´ve found this is also present in the pSense-documentation, but as a non professional i had to search quite long to find how to set it up - maybe a more concrete example with what it means would be helpful:
net.isr.maxthreads="-1"
net.isr.bindthreads="1"

Allow interrupts on hyperthreaded cores:
machdep.hyperthreading_intr_allowed="1"

These can be added to the loader.conf.local.
Maybe this helps if someone can´t consistent and good 10GB performance.
Would it be possible to extend the pfSense-documentation or even add these options as checkboxes
e.g. under the Tab "Networking" Section "Network Interfaces" - like "Optimize Thread-/Queue usage" and "Make logical cores available for interrupt handling" - both with a litte explanation?

Thanks in advance.
Puni

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