Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:31:51 -0400 From: Larry Baird <lab@gta.com> To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Paul Thornton <prt@prt.org> Subject: Re: Polling and kern.polling.idle_poll Message-ID: <20090702153151.GB93332@gta.com> In-Reply-To: <806553.16497.qm@web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <806553.16497.qm@web63903.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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> Curious as to why you don't simply lay out the $40 for a modern ethernet card that doesn't need polling to work well? These are low end embedded boxs. No way to upgrade. But in actuallity they have modern (fxp) NICS. From our testing, live lock is a real issue for gateways receiving lots of network traffic. Polling prevents live lock. Larry -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Baird | http://www.gta.com Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL Email: lab@gta.com | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080
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