device polling takes more CPU hits??

[James]

Hi Don,

> I would post the output of 'sysctl kern.polling', its likely
> some of the tuning there is insufficient.
> What do you have HZ set to (sysctl kern.clockrate)? I would
> probably have it set to ~1000.
> You will want 'machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=1'.

Thanks for quick reply. Here is the sysctl output with polling turned on.

-J

root at r2.bos# sysctl kern.clockrate
kern.clockrate: { hz = 4000, tick = 250, tickadj = 1, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128 }
        
root at r2.bos# sysctl kern.polling
kern.polling.burst: 150
kern.polling.each_burst: 5
kern.polling.burst_max: 150
kern.polling.idle_poll: 1
kern.polling.poll_in_trap: 1
kern.polling.user_frac: 50
kern.polling.reg_frac: 20
kern.polling.short_ticks: 4909
kern.polling.lost_polls: 11464
kern.polling.pending_polls: 0
kern.polling.residual_burst: 0
kern.polling.handlers: 1
kern.polling.enable: 1
kern.polling.phase: 0
kern.polling.suspect: 10249
kern.polling.stalled: 3
                                                                                root at r2.bos# sysctl machdep.cpu_idle_hlt
machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 1


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