new version of polling for FreeBSD 6.x

[Andre Oppermann]

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:12:06 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you
> wrote:
>> After many years of good services we will stop using FreeBSD 4.x :)
>> During my performance regression tests under FreeBSD 6.2 i've found  
>> that polling has lower performance than interrupt.
>> To solve that issue i've rewritten the core of polling to be more SMP  
>> ready.
> 
> Hi,
> 	This is really interesting work!  Reading the pdf file, it
> seems forwarding performance on 6 and 7 is still much lower than
> RELENG_4 ?  is that correct ?

Haven't tested RELENG_4 performance in a controlled environment and
thus can't answer the question directly.  However using fastforward
on 6 and 7 is key to good performance.  Without it you're stuck at
some 150-200kpps, perhaps 300kpps.  With it you get to 500-800kpps.

-- 
Andre

> 	---Mike
>> You can find a summary of all my tests and the source code at the  
>> following address:
>> http://www.netasq.com/opensource/pollng-rev1-freebsd.tgz
>>
>> Feel free to ask more detailed information if necessary and report  
>> any bugs / comments.
>>
>> Fabien
>>
>>
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