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Subject: Re: polling(4) and Gigabit
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At 12:49 PM 5/18/2003 +0200, Tony Sarendal wrote:
>Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>The em driver has polling support in STABLE (post 4.8R).  The limitation is
>>not so much the NIC, but the way the NIC is serviced via interrupts in non
>>polling modes.  There are some very good discussions posted already you can
>>get via Google on what you can and cant do and what you might expect
>>performance wise.
>
>OK, I checked the code in 4.8-RELEASE and only found polling in nge.

Its in *after* 4.8 Release. See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/em/if_em.c?only_with_tag=RELENG_4
on April 4th.


         ---Mike
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