polling(4) and Gigabit

[Mike Tancsa]

The em driver has polling support in STABLE (post 4.8R).  The limitation is
not so much the NIC, but the way the NIC is serviced via interrupts in non
polling modes.  There are some very good discussions posted already you can
get via Google on what you can and cant do and what you might expect
performance wise.

	---Mike

On Sun, 18 May 2003 09:53:26 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote:

>
> From what I can see nge is the only polling driver for
>Gig NICs, looking at 4.8. Has anyone done any performance
>tests on this ? I'm interested in knowing what can of
>bandwidth/pps one actually can achieve on a PC router.
>
>If the NIC now is the limitation(?), how much OS resources
>do I have left after the NIC is running at 100% ?
>
>I'm looking at building a new network, using pc routers
>for some of the bgp stuff can save quit a lot of money.
>
>/Tony S
>
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