Multiport NICs - VLAN and Polling Support?

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> polling is almost never a performance advantage
> for ethernet, as virtually all modern controllers
> have some sort of interrupt moderation built-in.

We had the case on fbsd 5.4p7 with SMP where bge drivers produced
much slower throughput if we did not use polling. We measured using
ttcp and the difference was from 2-3Mbyte/sec to 11 Mbyte/sec.

Yes, it used more CPU, but for that increase in throughput, it
was worth the expense.

So it looks a bit strange from my part of the world to.

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