SMP + polling on 7.0-RC1

Hiroshi Nishida nishida at asusa.net
Fri Feb 1 19:59:26 UTC 2008


Thanks.

I'm testing a parallel computing algorithm which uses a huge number of 
communications.
I think the 7.0+SMP+polling+ULE improved the performance very much.


Ed Maste wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:15:56AM -0800, Hiroshi Nishida wrote:
> 
>> Does the 'polling' mode for network devices work with a 7.0-RC1's SMP 
>> kernel?
>>
>> According to http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/, it seems not on 
>> FreeBSD 4.
>> What about 7.0?
> 
> Polling works with SMP as of FreeBSD 6.x.
> 
> -Ed
> 
> 


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Hiroshi Nishida
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