From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 14:53:15 2005 Return-Path: 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 568F116A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:53:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B86043D41 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:53:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from barner@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2005 14:53:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO zi025.glhnet.mhn.de) (129.187.19.157) by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 10 Feb 2005 15:53:12 +0100 X-Authenticated: #147403 Received: by zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2DECC0DE; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:53:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:53:13 +0100 From: Simon Barner To: Rob Message-ID: <20050210145313.GG16892@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20050210121347.6584.qmail@web54001.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YH9Qf6Fh2G5kB/85" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050210121347.6584.qmail@web54001.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: Bill Paul cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Device polling for xl(4) (was: Re: ULE status) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:53:15 -0000 --YH9Qf6Fh2G5kB/85 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [ Cc'ing Bill Paul, the author of the xl(4) driver ] > Also, as far as I understand, some extra boost comes > from using polling the devices; however, not all > devices do support this yet. >=20 > I use SMP (dual intel CPUs) with if_xl lan card, > but I can't use polling with this device. >=20 > ULE + polling would be a great performance gain, > I believe. >=20 > Any plans of extending polling support to more > devices? Are there any hidden obstacles that prevent xl(4) to be extended with polling support? Otherwise, if it's rather straightforward to do (taking a driver already supporting polling(4)), I could try it starting =66rom the end of February. But, I guess if it were so easy, somebody else would have already done it... Simon --YH9Qf6Fh2G5kB/85 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCC3VZCkn+/eutqCoRArLOAJ47oHZu8i8N7Woo0AJB0y2leVyZbwCglxX/ QnQ/V9jCsRusD+atfAt+/U0= =4fGf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YH9Qf6Fh2G5kB/85--