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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:09:42 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@sixcompanies.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: device polling
Message-ID:  <t78m73lb9rumpl1mu5imvgbeln64eccdr6@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <200706211120.l5LBKVMm000808@shadow.sixcompanies.com>
References:  <200706211120.l5LBKVMm000808@shadow.sixcompanies.com>

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:20:30 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>
>
>bge0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=3D5b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,POLLING>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
>
>Does this show its 'working'?
>Is there any way to test or verify this?


Try
ifconfig bge0 polling
ifconfig bge0 -polling

You should be able to see the difference in the interrupt rate in
vmstat -i 1
when transferring many packets across the NICs

	---Mike
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