From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 09:52:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5ADA16A423 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:52:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spamrefuse@yahoo.com) Received: from web36211.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36211.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.68.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C89943F4D for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:23:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spamrefuse@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 64079 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Nov 2005 08:23:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=c5sb+x77lH02dmNbu9cx+NB1BQ89qQ0zYY2qGjdB6OPs1wkTUGyICls39mrCzHaXysYfm+yprZhVr/uD4srCy4gt6EriBfQJ8zaKRHXFbWkaEhEg58jj5Hf7YY7Q3uf9zNCUZbdlhr9gHH0/Ys0id+dKZ5qqmUd3MH6CWpYiW6o= ; Message-ID: <20051118082310.64077.qmail@web36211.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [147.46.44.181] by web36211.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:23:10 PST Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:23:10 -0800 (PST) From: Rob To: FreeBSD Stable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Why device sk (PCI Gigabit Ethernet) cannot use polling? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:52:43 -0000 Xin LI wrote: > On 11/18/05, Rob 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