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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:27:41 -0400
From:      Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To:        "Support (Rudy)" <crapsh@monkeybrains.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>, Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding  performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]
Message-ID:  <4869880D.8040901@ibctech.ca>
In-Reply-To: <486986D9.3000607@monkeybrains.net>
References:  <4867420D.7090406@gtcomm.net>	<200806301944.m5UJifJD081781@lava.sentex.ca>	<20080701004346.GA3898@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>	<alpine.LFD.1.10.0807010257570.19444@filebunker.xip.at>	<20080701010716.GF3898@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>	<alpine.LFD.1.10.0807010308320.19444@filebunker.xip.at> <486986D9.3000607@monkeybrains.net>

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Support (Rudy) wrote:
> Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
>> usually interface polling is also chosen to prevent "lock-ups".
>> man polling
> 
> 
> I used polling in FreeBSD 5.x and it helped a bunch.  I set up a new 
> router with 7.0 and MSI was recommended to me.  (I noticed no difference 
> when moving from polling -> MSI, however, on 5.4 polling seemed to help 
> a lot.  

I'm curious now... how do you change individual device polling via sysctl?

Steve



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