-------- In message <5098E526.6070101_at_freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann writes: >Hi Luigi, > >do you agree on polling having outlived its usefulness in the light >of interrupt moderating NIC's and SMP complications/disadvantages? Can I just point out, that what we have is not in fact "device-polling" but only "some-kinds-of-network-interface-polling" ? I think it should go away, and if there still is a relevant usage segment, be replaced by _real_ "device-polling" which is not tied to the network stack. Amongst the sensible uses for that would be high-speed serial interfaces etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue Nov 06 2012 - 09:27:40 UTC
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