On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:25:13PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote: > > Has anyone made any headway with getting polling(4) to work with a SMP > kernel? Last May this was discussed on here briefly with me, Luigi and > Don Bowman, which seemed to indicate that the majority of what needed > to be fixed to make this work would be some kind of locking in > idle_loop to make sure only one CPU gets into the polling code at once. > > I've got a case where enabling SMP gives me a 20-30% performance boost, > or if I turn polling on I get another 10-15% boost. I'd love to see > what the two together could do.
I was just about to ask the same question. We've just received 2 Athlon MPs 2400+ and we're about to buy a gigabit Intel PRO/1000MT Dual for one of our servers. It would be great if SMP could be combined with polling. -- | Radu Bogdan 'veedee' Rusu | NetSysAdm at campus dot utcluj dot ro | Personal gallery at http://rbrusu.com | ...mirroring FreeBSD and coffee _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"