From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 00:05:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEA616A41C; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ps@mu.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A1D43D6A; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:05:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ps@mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 079035CC15; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: ps@mu.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.119]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCDB81E0E; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:44:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A542A5579F; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) id 4DB0F37B419; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:44:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 265DB2E8003; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:44:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:44:32 -0800 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from inje.iskon.hr (inje.iskon.hr [213.191.128.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8360B37B41C; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from tel.fer.hr (zg07-209.dialin.iskon.hr [213.191.150.210]) by mail.iskon.hr (8.11.4/8.11.4/Iskon 8.11.3-1) with ESMTP id fB7Ki9O17119; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:44:12 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3C112A14.21F08D50@tel.fer.hr> From: Marko Zec X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith References: <200112071926.fB7JQx301437@mass.dis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Status: RO Lines: 34 Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp , net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request to back out Luigis polled-net patch in -stable. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:05:07 -0000 X-Original-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 21:44:04 +0100 X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:05:07 -0000 Mike Smith wrote: > > Subject: Request to back out Luigis polled-net patch in -stable. > > I'm entirely in agreement with this; the decision to commit this code was > extremely ill-advised, and the best thing we can do now for everyone's > sake is to pull it as quickly as possible. > > > I would also like to point to the parallel piece of code: Jun-Itohs > > ALTQ for which he reliably has maintained a patch relative to the > > 4.X branch and which despite various peoples requests have not > > haphazardly been committed into -stable. And in that context one > > should not forget that ALTQ has a lot longer and better trackrecord > > of high quality than Luigis poll-code, or any of Luigis code for > > that matter. > > Yes; this is an excellent example of how it can be done better. Sorry guys, but aren't you comparing apples with oranges? As far as I understand, ALTQ is focused on implementing various new queuing disciplines, but on outgoing traffic if I am not mistaking. Luigi's code is aimed on achieving something completely different - making the system more susceptible to huge *incoming* traffic loads, by reducing interrupt processing and some PCI bus overhead. What do these two things have in common? Concerning the request for removal of the polling code, I personally as a BSD rookie cannot judge your arguments properly, but I must admit that the wording and intonation of pkh's note wasn't very pleasant... Marko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message