On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:59:27PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Attila Nagy wrote: > > > > With a dc ethernet card and ~45K packets per second, an XP1700 system went > > from > 50% interrupt to < 1%. I was astounded at the change! > > that is partly cheating, because with polling, some of the work which > was done in an interrupt context is done elsewere. Still you might > have some significant load reduction, i admit :) Very significant. The system went from maxed out at 30K pps to 35% idle at > 40K pps. I suspect it's an extreme case with the dc card. I've observed less with the fxp. Thanks for all the work Luigi:) --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
