Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:05:07 -0000 From: Marko Zec <zec@tel.fer.hr> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request to back out Luigis polled-net patch in -stable. Message-ID: <3C112A14.21F08D50@tel.fer.hr> References: <200112071926.fB7JQx301437@mass.dis.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mike Smith wrote: > > Subject: Request to back out Luigis polled-net patch in -stable. > > I'm entirely in agreement with this; the decision to commit this code was > extremely ill-advised, and the best thing we can do now for everyone's > sake is to pull it as quickly as possible. > > > I would also like to point to the parallel piece of code: Jun-Itohs > > ALTQ for which he reliably has maintained a patch relative to the > > 4.X branch and which despite various peoples requests have not > > haphazardly been committed into -stable. And in that context one > > should not forget that ALTQ has a lot longer and better trackrecord > > of high quality than Luigis poll-code, or any of Luigis code for > > that matter. > > Yes; this is an excellent example of how it can be done better. Sorry guys, but aren't you comparing apples with oranges? As far as I understand, ALTQ is focused on implementing various new queuing disciplines, but on outgoing traffic if I am not mistaking. Luigi's code is aimed on achieving something completely different - making the system more susceptible to huge *incoming* traffic loads, by reducing interrupt processing and some PCI bus overhead. What do these two things have in common? Concerning the request for removal of the polling code, I personally as a BSD rookie cannot judge your arguments properly, but I must admit that the wording and intonation of pkh's note wasn't very pleasant... Marko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3C112A14.21F08D50>