poor fastforwarding and polling performance

[Mike Tancsa]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:09:03 -0800, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you
wrote:
>
>With polling (ifconfig sis0 polling; ifconfig sis1 polling) I get  
>about 1.5-2Mbit (pf doesn't make a difference).

For Polling, set
kern.polling.idle_poll=1

Also, try removing

options         ADAPTIVE_GIANT          # Giant mutex is adaptive.
and adding
options NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES

from the kernel.  This should help a little with the non
fast_forwarding case.

	---Mike
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