On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, GiZmen wrote: > Hello, > > I am runnign freebsd 5.2.1 on 386 arch with two rl lan cards. My mainboard > is on VIA KT 266A with AMD athlon 1.1. > I read man polling and i have HZ=1000. My problem is that when i set up > sysctl variable kern.polling.enable=1 my interrupts greatly increase. > When my system is idle and indicate 0-1% interrupts with out polling. > and when i turn on polling interrupts goes up to about 20% on idle system. > Is it normal ? I never before use polling and i dont know that i have > something bad in my system ? > > Can somebody explain me this ? > > thx > -- > Best Regards: > GiZmen
Ruslan can probably jump in and give you a better explanation than I can, but I'll try to provide a quick answer. In short, the rl cards + driver are not well suited to polling and will not work well with it enabled. Support for polling on rl may in fact be removed as a result of this. Mike "Silby" Silbersack _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
