Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:41:50 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swi_net Message-ID: <20011218134149.A89299@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <20011218104750.M377@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <20011213091957.B39991@iguana.aciri.org> <20011219010205.P4481-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20011218104750.M377@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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> I'm planning on revising swi_net so that it is possible to run all > network processing under the device interrupt instead of deferring > things to a netisr(). This also has the advantage of eliminating all The thing is, some processing can be quite long (e.g. IPSec, very long ipfw rulesets, multicast when you have a large number of sockets trying to fetch the packet, etc.), so it is not 100% desirable having it run in interrupt context. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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