DEVICE_POLLING in 5.3

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:27:22PM +0200, Yaraghchi, Stephan wrote:
> Hi fellows,
> 
> I'm trying to tune network performance of a 5.3-BETA5 box
> by compiling the DEVICE_POLLING and HZ=1000 options into
> the kernel. Compilation went fine.
> I found the usual warning in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_poll.c
> concerning device polling in SMP kernels and removed it.
> 
> To finally enable the feature one have to set the sysctl
> kern.polling.enable to value '1'.
> 
> The only problem is that 5.3-BETA5 doesn't know about it:
> 
> sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.polling.enable'
> 
> Any advice is highly appreciated.

Hi,

Did you do a full make buildworld/kernel installkernel/world? If not
then this might be why sysctl doesn't know about it. If so then maybe
someone from current@ might know more about it. (maybe there read this
list to)

Does /usr/src/UPDATING say anything about it?

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Alex

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