From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 1 19:59:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C098416A419 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:59:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nishida@asusa.net) Received: from vs02.admiral.net (vs02.admiral.net [65.121.144.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E88613C4CE for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:59:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nishida@asusa.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.admiral.net [127.0.0.1]) by vs02.admiral.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF94785B3 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 04:59:26 +0900 (JST) Received: from usam.asusa.net (usa.asusa.net [65.121.144.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vs02.admiral.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E10D785B0 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 04:59:26 +0900 (JST) Received: (qmail 12389 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2008 11:59:25 -0800 X-ASJ-Track-ID: <20080201195925.12389.qmail@usam.asusa.net> X-ASJ-Auth-ID: auth X-ASJ-Arrival-IP: 65.121.144.11 X-ASJ-SPF-Info: auth X-ASJ-Received-SPF: pass (send with smtp authentication by nishida%asusa.net@65.121.144.11) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.50?) (nishida%asusa.net@65.121.144.11) by usam.asusa.net with SMTP; 1 Feb 2008 11:59:25 -0800 Message-ID: <47A37A11.5020808@asusa.net> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:59:13 -0800 From: Hiroshi Nishida User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060123) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <47A36FEC.4030904@asusa.net> <20080201195254.GA65458@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <20080201195254.GA65458@sandvine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ASJ VSCAN based on AMaViS perl-11-ASJ-ETHEL-07030100-ML-SPEEDY58 Subject: Re: SMP + polling on 7.0-RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:59:26 -0000 Thanks. I'm testing a parallel computing algorithm which uses a huge number of communications. I think the 7.0+SMP+polling+ULE improved the performance very much. Ed Maste wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:15:56AM -0800, Hiroshi Nishida wrote: > >> Does the 'polling' mode for network devices work with a 7.0-RC1's SMP >> kernel? >> >> According to http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/, it seems not on >> FreeBSD 4. >> What about 7.0? > > Polling works with SMP as of FreeBSD 6.x. > > -Ed > > -- Hiroshi Nishida nishida@asusa.net