From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Apr 3 19:21:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EDB37B41D for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:21:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g343LUw82333; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:21:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:21:30 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Terry Lambert Cc: Stefan Saroiu , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Interrupt Handlers and Multiple CPUs In-Reply-To: <3CAB674A.F6BC6F9D@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > In addition, you might want to look at Luigi Rizzo's patcehs for > polling, and John Lemons patches for diminishing the NETISR requirements > by processing some operations until completion at interrupt time (a > "poor man's LRP"). Both of these are in -current (5.x). I believe polling was MFC'd to -STABLE, so may even be in 4.5-RELEASE. Jonathan's patches for processing to completion in the interrupt thread have not been committed, I believe. His time seems to have evaporated somewhere. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message