FreeBSD boxes as a 'router'...

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 11/20/12 2:42 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone who even mentions polling should be discounted altogether. Polling
>> had value when you couldn't control the interrupt delays; but interrupt
>> moderation allows you to pace the interrupts any way you like without
>> the inefficiencies of polling.
> You're entitled to your opinion, but experimental results have tended to show yours incorrect.
>
> Jim
Agree with Jim.  If you want pure packet performance you burn a core to 
run a polling loop.

-Alfred