From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 3 01:56:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24A916A4CE for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 01:56:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-04-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E2D43D49 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 01:56:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-065-184-201-054.ec.res.rr.com [65.184.201.54])j331ulL4005759; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:56:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <424F4FAD.7080300@ec.rr.com> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 21:06:37 -0500 From: jason henson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050321) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dick hoogendijk References: <20050402173222.53977dd4.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050402173222.53977dd4.dick@nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device_polling X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 01:56:59 -0000 dick hoogendijk wrote: >I was building a new kernel today and came across an option I had not >seen before. I googled some and concluded that "options device_polling / >options HZ=1000" would be a better way for my realtec network cards than >the default interupt driven.. > >Is this correct?? Would it be better to have this polling in the kernel? >(fbsd-4.11-stable) > > > I would say yes. Check man polling for extra info.