On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:58:58PM -0500, Don Bowman wrote: > > I read Luigi's paper at info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/ which at the > > end implies that DEVICE_POLLING on an SMP box might not make > > sense - but > > right now for me it would make sense as both CPU's are locked: > > One tries to handle interrupts > > The other tries to manage the application > > > > I could try forcing DEVICE_POLLING to compile as is suggested in that > > URL but I wanted to see if anyone had tried this before. > > The interface is an FXP. > > We use it on em. I just commented out the #error line that > says you can't do it. > device polling in idle doesn't work, and the user/system time > calculation isn't correct, but it works well otherwise.
This is pretty much what I wanted to confirm thanks! In which way is the system/user time incorrect? Always, or only under high load? what about it is incorrect? My skills are limited but I might take a stab at fixing that. -- Avleen Vig Systems Administrator Personal: www.silverwraith.com EFnet: irc.mindspring.com (Earthlink user access only) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
