Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:59:30 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: polling(4) and rl(4) Message-ID: <407A6882.3080807@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040412075849.GF17656@ip.net.ua> References: <20040409164724.GD2461@ip.net.ua> <407A3AD5.50508@cronyx.ru> <20040412075849.GF17656@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:44:37AM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote: > > >>Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> >> >> >>>As an aside, I've started working on the ``[-]polling'' option for >>>ifconfig(8) that, when done, will allow changing the polling status >>>of individual interfaces in run-time, e.g., the following command >>>will disable polling on nge0: >>> >>> ifconfig nge0 -polling >>> >>> >>Just a thought, what if iface is not hardware? Netgraph for example? :-) >> >> >I can only think of ng_eiface(4) here, and I don't see how it would >benefit at all from having the DEVICE_POLLING support, nor I can see >how such a support would fit into the driver, as the driver doesn't >have any RX/TX queues. But it can be done of course. ;) > > I am about devices that might have hardware layer that supports polling but doesn't end with iface itself ... Though it was just some thought ;-) rik
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