Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 08:45:15 -0800 From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com> To: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance questions (Interrupt vs. polled) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970307084514.00905c60@visigenic.com>
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At 09:50 AM 3/7/97 -0500, you wrote: >I'm hoping not to start a flame war, but rather would just like to know the >pros and cons, so I can make a decision as to how to work this driver >for maximum overall system efficiency. No flame. My learned opinion however is that a system with efficiant thread scheduling (such as freeBSD) is best served by polling. Interrupted tasking is best for serial, brain-dead systems, like DOS. Polling might not be the best way to go on a slow system either, but on a 486-66 or better with decent ram, I think polling is the way to go. -Tim
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