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Date:      Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:31:37 -0700
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        wpaul@FreeBSD.org (Bill Paul)
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc devd.conf src/sys/modules Makefilesrc/sys/modules/vge Makefile src/sys/dev/vge if_vge.c if_vgereg.hif_
Message-ID:  <D0C4E84C-0420-11D9-BBE1-000A95AD0668@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040911182507.C4E9816A4D2@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20040911182507.C4E9816A4D2@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sep 11, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Bill Paul wrote:

>>> It's "ok." I only have a 33Mhz/32-bit PCI sample card. When I tested
>>> it, I only got it up to about 540Mbps. I attribute some of this to
>>> 5.3-BETA3's (lack of) performance. :( I was only able to get about
>>> 120000 frames/sec transmit frame rate out of it, which disappointed
>>> me. (It should be closer to 400000, especially on a dual PIII 1.2Ghz
>>> system.)
>>>
>> Did you also test in polling mode?
>
> Someone cleverly fixed it so that DEVICE_POLLING doesn't work with SMP.
> And I used an SMP system for testing. So no.

As discussed many times, DEVICE_POLLING in its present form makes no 
sense for SMP systems.  You can always boot a UP kernel on an SMP 
machine.

	Sam



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