Do you have a source on this? Reason I ask is because any recent documentation I've come across indicates that polling is recommended to reduce chances of livelock on a running system.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Eduardo Schoedler <lis...@esds.com.br>wrote: > 2013/5/19 Andrew Jones <a...@jonesy.com.au> > > > As for migration to another OS, I find FreeBSD better as a matter of > >> network performance. The last time I checked OpenBSD was either > >> lacking or was in the early stages of multiple cores support. > >> > > > > If you do decide to go the FreeBSD route (you can run openbgpd on FreeBSD > > if you like), check out the POLLING option on ethernet NICs, it cuts down > > on the number of interrupts and can increase performance, particularly > when > > dealing with smaller packets. > > > > Polling on FreeBSD in modern NICs is discouraged. > > -- > Eduardo Schoedler > -- Ryan Gard
