In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Watson writes: >On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> I still think we should stop having this network-centric view of polling >> and implement _real_ *device* polling, so that other device types can >> use it as well. > >While I agree that we should offer polling to non-network device drivers >also, I think it's worth observing that the network awareness of our >current polling code has some interesting advantages. [...]
None of which could not be implemented on top of a general polling facility, and some of which makes polling unusable with high end networking hardware like a 8x1Gige card where all ports are handled by the same interrupt. Anyway, I just wanted to make the point, not start a long discussion. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
