Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:08:37 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffreylyon@prepaidlegal.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Router take advantage of device polling Message-ID: <20040522120837.GA4257@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <40AF30B4.5050800@prepaidlegal.com> References: <40AF30B4.5050800@prepaidlegal.com>
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On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 06:51:32AM -0400, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> I am currently running a router pushing about 15 megabit of traffic,=20
> with CPU usage like so:
>=20
> root 25 5.9 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 10:16AM 47:49.70 (irq7:=20
> bge0 amr0)
> root 14 5.9 0.0 0 12 ?? WL 10:16AM 55:15.63 (swi1: net)
> root 26 3.0 0.0 0 12 ?? LL 10:16AM 28:42.81 (irq5: bge1)
>=20
> I am told that activating the device_polling kernel option will cause a=
=20
> substantial reduction in this usage. Is there any truth to that statement?
Probably not. I see you are using bge(4) devices -- there's nothing
in the polling(4) or bge(4) man pages to suggest that the bge
interface does support polling, and the code in /usr/src/sys/dev/bge
makes no reference to the DEVICE_POLLING cpp macro, so it's unlikely
to help with that hardware.
Assuming you've got suitable hardware, whether device polling gains
you much, or anything at all depends on the nature of the traffic
you're dealing with. There are about dozen kernel tunables that you
can use to optimize traffic flows. See the polling(4) man page for
more information.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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