RE: device polling takes more CPU hits??

[d...@sandvine.com]

From: James [mailto:ha...@towardex.com]
> Hi all,
>
...

>
> Any idea why device polling is kind of having... negative
> impact? Is this b/c
> I have SMP compiled on a box that really doesn't have two
> cpu's?? Is SMP+APIC_IO
> support even required for HTT use?

I would post the output of 'sysctl kern.polling', its likely
some of the tuning there is insufficient.
What do you have HZ set to (sysctl kern.clockrate)? I would
probably have it set to ~1000.
You will want 'machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=1'.

--don
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