Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

[Steve Bertrand]

Support (Rudy) wrote:
> Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
>> usually interface polling is also chosen to prevent "lock-ups".
>> man polling
> 
> 
> I used polling in FreeBSD 5.x and it helped a bunch.  I set up a new 
> router with 7.0 and MSI was recommended to me.  (I noticed no difference 
> when moving from polling -> MSI, however, on 5.4 polling seemed to help 
> a lot.  

I'm curious now... how do you change individual device polling via sysctl?

Steve