DEVICE_POLLING with SMP

[veedee at c7.campus.utcluj.ro]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:25:13PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> Has anyone made any headway with getting polling(4) to work with a SMP 
> kernel?  Last May this was discussed on here briefly with me, Luigi and 
> Don Bowman, which seemed to indicate that the majority of what needed 
> to be fixed to make this work would be some kind of locking in 
> idle_loop to make sure only one CPU gets into the polling code at once.
> 
> I've got a case where enabling SMP gives me a 20-30% performance boost, 
> or if I turn polling on I get another 10-15% boost. I'd love to see 
> what the two together could do. 

I was just about to ask the same question. We've just received 2 Athlon MPs
2400+ and we're about to buy a gigabit Intel PRO/1000MT Dual for one of our
servers.

It would be great if SMP could be combined with polling.
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