On 9/10/2002 6:20 PM, "Attila Nagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, [chomp] > and > sys/kern/kern_poll.c: > [...] > #ifdef SMP > #include "opt_lint.h" > #ifndef COMPILING_LINT > #error DEVICE_POLLING is not compatible with SMP > #endif > #endif > [...] > > (no SMP support) This I can live with, as it appears having multiple CPUs does SFA anyway when it comes to firewalling (at least with FreeBSD <5.0). Certainly we have no discernable improvement on our dual 1GHz P3s between a UMP and SMP kernel. > As stated above, I'm not an expert, but my opinion is that polling would > be the best on the Gigabit cards (due to their capacity) and not the Fast > Ethernet ones. > > Maybe we could start sending GE hardware to Luigi :) I could probably swing a remote login to a machine with a NetGear GA620 (ti) fibre card and an Intel (em) copper card (it's a Dell 1650) if it would help speed development. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
