test drive results of ule patch + re(3) patch [hand crafted by maintainer for my system]

[Aryeh Friedman]

On 10/3/07, Remko Lodder <remko at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > After installing the both patchs (the re(3) can be found at
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.HEAD.patch):
> >
> > In general it seems to be working well with only one possible issue (I
> > don't think it is either patch):
> >
> > * Some sites take a long time or do not complete load in firefox 2.0.0.7
> >
> > Uname -a:
> >
> > FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #13: Tue Oct  2
> > 21:17:29 UTC 2007     aryeh at monsert:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> > amd64
> >
> > kernel has DEVICE_POLLING and IPI_PREEMPTION running on a E6850/4gig
>
> From what I know you should not use DEVICE_POLLING at all.

I had it turned on for some re(3) issues that I think may have been
solved as of the last patch so the next time I do a kernel rebuild I
will remove it.