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Subject: Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a huge
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> IIRC, didn't the NT driver for some NIC (Intel?) switch to polling,
> anyway, under heavy load?  The reasoning being that you _know_ that you're
> going to get something... why bother an IRQ hit?
THis is very interesting. How does this affect performance?

JAn


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