> I'm not saying you should use polling. I'm saying that not using polling > makes for more context switches. 64bit registers are twice as large as > 32bit registers. There will be a bigger penalty on stack/memory usage > and therefore slower transitions from one context to another (read: > handling a packet). > This might be mitigated by having a very large cpu cache. > > It may or may not make much of a difference considering stacks are > aligned, i was just theorizing.
Ok, I get what you are saying now. > Just curious: Is there a reason you can't advertise your entire > allocated block and receive two full feeds? Well to be honest, there is no reason why I couldn't receive full routes with the new box. My current router couldn't handle the full route table, but any new router will be able to. Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
