Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:57:22 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>, Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Interrupts + Polling mode (similar to Linux's NAPI) Message-ID: <20090429135722.GB51674@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20090429132156.GA42816@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <49F7709F.1020409@modulus.org> <172091.41695.qm@web63907.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20090429132156.GA42816@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:21:56PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:46:32AM -0700, Barney Cordoba wrote: ... > > When the collective answer to better network performance is polling, it > > makes it appear as if the FreeBSD project is a bunch of dudes working on > > stuff they feel like doing, rather than there being some centralized plan > > to make the project successful. > > That appearance is probably due to the fact the the FreeBSD project actually > is a bunch of dudes working on what they feel like doing (or in a few cases > on what they get paid for doing), and that there is very little centralized > planning being done. (And even if there was, there is no way of enforcing > that people work according to such a plan.) not to mention that very little if any work has been done on polling recently: i developed the base system in 2001-2002, and since then there has been just some basic maintainance (at least in the tree). cheers luigi
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