Re: Polling for devices other than NICs [patch]

2006-01-10 Thread Nate Nielsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Maste wrote: > In addition, the current polling algorithm breaks down when you get to > very high CPU utilization by the stack (e.g. if acting as a high > bandwidth router). This happens because it adds one count per tick > if the polling did not r

Re: Polling for devices other than NICs [patch]

2006-01-09 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 11:17:00PM +, Nate Nielsen wrote: > Nate Nielsen wrote: > > The polling functionality in FreeBSD is currently a bit NIC centric. > > With a few changes other types devices can use the polling subsystem. > > Attached is my first whack at this. > > > > This is some of my

Re: Polling for devices other than NICs [patch]

2006-01-07 Thread Nate Nielsen
Nate Nielsen wrote: > The polling functionality in FreeBSD is currently a bit NIC centric. > With a few changes other types devices can use the polling subsystem. > Attached is my first whack at this. > > This is some of my first hacking on the FreeBSD kernel. It'd be great if > there was someone