Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:31:37 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: wpaul@FreeBSD.org (Bill Paul) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc devd.conf src/sys/modules Makefilesrc/sys/modules/vge Makefile src/sys/dev/vge if_vge.c if_vgereg.hif_ Message-ID: <D0C4E84C-0420-11D9-BBE1-000A95AD0668@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20040911182507.C4E9816A4D2@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20040911182507.C4E9816A4D2@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sep 11, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Bill Paul wrote: >>> It's "ok." I only have a 33Mhz/32-bit PCI sample card. When I tested >>> it, I only got it up to about 540Mbps. I attribute some of this to >>> 5.3-BETA3's (lack of) performance. :( I was only able to get about >>> 120000 frames/sec transmit frame rate out of it, which disappointed >>> me. (It should be closer to 400000, especially on a dual PIII 1.2Ghz >>> system.) >>> >> Did you also test in polling mode? > > Someone cleverly fixed it so that DEVICE_POLLING doesn't work with SMP. > And I used an SMP system for testing. So no. As discussed many times, DEVICE_POLLING in its present form makes no sense for SMP systems. You can always boot a UP kernel on an SMP machine. Sam
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