[Soekris] Net 4801 performance

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Jun 1, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Matt Simerson wrote:

>> Our default clock rate is 1,000 (sysctl kern.clockrate).
>> The net effect is that if we're processing less than 1,000 qps,
>> polling is actually more expensive than letting the nic generate
>> interrupts (the default). It's only after that threshold gets
>> crossed that polling delivers an advantage.

I haven't had a chance to try it, but setting the clockrate to say  
100 or 200 could help on this, no?


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