Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:23:10 -0800 (PST) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why device sk (PCI Gigabit Ethernet) cannot use polling? Message-ID: <20051118082310.64077.qmail@web36211.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Xin LI wrote: > On 11/18/05, Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>The sk device has no polling support, >>neither in 5 nor in 6. >>Is there a particular reason (maybe >>because it's a Gigabit device) ? >> >>Or is polling not supported because it >>simply has not yet been coded? If so, would >>it be straightforward to add the code? > > > That would not be very hard if you own some hardware, > so if you have the hardware, give it a try! :-) I do have the hardware: an sk integrated on the motherboard, but this is on a production server. Also, I don't know anything about coding the polling stuff; I use it on other PCs (rl, xl) and was wondering why not with sk. If I have a piece of code that is 99.9 % sure to work, then in that case I could try it out on the production server in a test over the weekend. > BTW. Since glebius@ has some recent work on > polling(4), you may want to ask him for some > in-depth advises. Who is glebius? Rob. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
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