Mark Peek wrote:
>
> At 9:09 PM -0500 2/8/01, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> >One possible right way to deal with this is to get rid of the
> >two-level interrupt scheme (for fast interfaces at least) and push the
> >packets all the way through the network stack. This will ensure that
> >if packets are arriving faster than we can handle them, they will be
> >dropped by the network interface with an ``insufficient resources''
> >error.
> >
> >Another possible right way to deal with this is to move all network
> >processing into the lower level, and poll round-robin for packets
> >(with network interrupts disabled) until all network interfaces are
> >finished (or we need to give the user a time slice).
> >
> >Both techniques were described in a paper by Jeff Mogul (then at DEC
> >in Palo Alto) about five years ago; I have a physical copy of the
> >paper buried somewhere in my office.
>
> Is this the paper you were referring to?
> <http://www.research.compaq.com/wrl/techreports/abstracts/95.8.html>
I remember a paper on this at USEnix about the same time (maybe 96/7)
>
> Mark
>
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