Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-24 Thread Scott Long
Marcelo Gardini do Amaral wrote: The limited testing I've done on a Sun V20z at work suggests that you can get better routing throughput in interrupt mode than polling mode. YMMV and this is before tweaking the polling parameters. (My testing also suggests that I don't really need to do any twea

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-24 Thread Marcelo Gardini do Amaral
> >The limited testing I've done on a Sun V20z at work suggests that you > >can get better routing throughput in interrupt mode than polling mode. > >YMMV and this is before tweaking the polling parameters. (My testing > >also suggests that I don't really need to do any tweaking because > >the lim

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-24 Thread Marcelo Gardini do Amaral
> A few points: > > - Polling and SMP are compatible in 6.1. In fact, they were compatible > in earlier versions too; basically it's just the compile-time check > that had to be "fixed." > > - You may have to adjust some parameters in the kern.polling sysctl > tree - specifically, kern.pol

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-20 Thread Scott Long
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2006-Jul-19 22:38:56 -0400, Ed Maste wrote: - You may have to adjust some parameters in the kern.polling sysctl tree - specifically, kern.polling.burst_max, kern.polling.each_burst and kern.polling.user_frac might need tweaking. Note that increasing kern.polling.

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-Jul-19 22:38:56 -0400, Ed Maste wrote: >- You may have to adjust some parameters in the kern.polling sysctl > tree - specifically, kern.polling.burst_max, kern.polling.each_burst > and kern.polling.user_frac might need tweaking. Note that increasing kern.polling.burst_max and kern.p

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-19 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:09:08PM -0300, Marcelo Gardini do Amaral wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup polling in my box. [...] > But I always get some packet loss. A few points: - Polling and SMP are compatible in 6.1. In fact, they were compatible in earlier versions too; basically it's