Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:22:10 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swi_net Message-ID: <20011219171202.W6928-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20011218134149.A89299@iguana.aciri.org>
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I'm planning on revising swi_net so that it is possible to run all > > network processing under the device interrupt instead of deferring > > things to a netisr(). This also has the advantage of eliminating all > > The thing is, some processing can be quite long (e.g. IPSec, very > long ipfw rulesets, multicast when you have a large number of > sockets trying to fetch the packet, etc.), so it is not 100% > desirable having it run in interrupt context. Netisrs exist because it was 100% undesirable on old, slow machines, but it isn't a problem now that machines are infinitely fast ;-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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