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cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: polling(4) and rl(4)
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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