Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-18 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Ahhnice ! Please send a HEADSUP when done. Thanks - aW 0n Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:38:15PM +1030, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:54:17PM +1030, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? > > eg I w

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:54:17PM +1030, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? > > eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit >Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. > I have polling support for bge(4)

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:51:24AM -, Mark Magiera wrote: > > Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? > > > > eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit > >Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. > > > > Is it a hardware feature of

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Mark Magiera
> Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? > > eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit >Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. > > Is it a hardware feature of the NIC ? > > - aW > >From `man 4 polling`: SUPPORTED DEVICES Polli

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
Why can some NIC use polling and others not ? eg I went to turn on polling on my BCM5782 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Card. And bge(4) doesn't mention anything about polling. Is it a hardware feature of the NIC ? - aW 0n Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy w

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread James
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:52:49AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > The router box is a 1.4GHz Celeron PC with an fxp(4) interface split > > across a dozen of vlans. There is nothing special about its setup > > except for ~250 rules

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:08:25PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >[ ...praise of polling(4)... ] > >Does polling(4) increase latency? It is very imortant for router > >that handles

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: [ ...praise of polling(4)... ] Does polling(4) increase latency? It is very imortant for router that handles lots of RTP (VoIP) traffic. Using polling does increase the latency of the tra

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Yar Tikhiy
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:52:49AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > The router box is a 1.4GHz Celeron PC with an fxp(4) interface split > > across a dozen of vlans. There is nothing special about its setup > > except for ~250 rules

Re: polling(4) rocks!

2004-11-17 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:51PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > The router box is a 1.4GHz Celeron PC with an fxp(4) interface split > across a dozen of vlans. There is nothing special about its setup > except for ~250 rules loaded into ipfw2. It is running 4.10-RELEASE. > Without polling, it was