Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 20:44:03 +1000 From: Christopher Smith <csmith@its.uq.edu.au> To: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> Cc: <hardware@freebsd.org>, <net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: High interrupt load on firewalls Message-ID: <B9CA4593.3A1F2%csmith@its.uq.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210091011560.3631-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>
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On 9/10/2002 6:20 PM, "Attila Nagy" <bra@fsn.hu> wrote: > Hello, [chomp] > and > sys/kern/kern_poll.c: > [...] > #ifdef SMP > #include "opt_lint.h" > #ifndef COMPILING_LINT > #error DEVICE_POLLING is not compatible with SMP > #endif > #endif > [...] > > (no SMP support) This I can live with, as it appears having multiple CPUs does SFA anyway when it comes to firewalling (at least with FreeBSD <5.0). Certainly we have no discernable improvement on our dual 1GHz P3s between a UMP and SMP kernel. > As stated above, I'm not an expert, but my opinion is that polling would > be the best on the Gigabit cards (due to their capacity) and not the Fast > Ethernet ones. > > Maybe we could start sending GE hardware to Luigi :) I could probably swing a remote login to a machine with a NetGear GA620 (ti) fibre card and an Intel (em) copper card (it's a Dell 1650) if it would help speed development. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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