Re: [REVIEW/TEST] polling(4) changes

From: Gleb Smirnoff (glebius_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 09/30/05

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To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>

    On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:13:22PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
    P> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:03:02PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
    P> +> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:40:00PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
    P> +> T> [please, follow-up on net@ only]
    P> +> T>
    P> +> T> Colleagues,
    P> +> T>
    P> +> T> here are some patches for review.
    P> +>
    P> +> I have some changes to patch after last compile, and haven't tested them
    P> +> befire sending patch. Here is an updated one.
    P>
    P> BTW. Not compiling in DEVICE_POLLING has any advantages except few bytes
    P> smaller kernel?
    P> I wonder if we could drop yet another kernel option and just set
    P> kern.poll.enable to 0 by default.
    P> If adding DEVICE_POLLING to the kernel doesn't cost additional locking, etc.
    P> in network data flow paths (which could lead to performance impact in some
    P> specific environments) can we just compile the code in always?

    It adds a stub function call every tick. The function returns almost
    immediately if no interfaces do polling. 

    -- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
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