Polling and em0

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Eugene Kazarinov wrote:

EK> > dell1# cat /dev/zero | dd bs=1m | nc dell2 3000
EK> > ^C0+18456 records in
EK> > 0+18455 records out
EK> > 1209466880 bytes transferred in 12.459299 secs (97,073,429 bytes/sec)
EK> 
EK> 
EK> Do you meen that from 6.2 I dont need polling for fastest performance?

We had opposite experience, at least in situation when 1 Gbps RELENG_6 router 
have to route a LOT of small packets from a few thousands of residential 
ethernet customers... 

We have bge instead of em though. Maybe it's time to experiment further now.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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