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Date:      Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:50:21 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_poll.c 
Message-ID:  <66057.1126029021@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:16:43 MDT." <431DCEFB.9030005@samsco.org> 

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In message <431DCEFB.9030005@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:

>> For the case of storage, you actually have a better model since all 
>> transactions are initiated from the host (as opposed to packet 
>> arrivals).  This gives an easy metric for a dynamic polling threshold -- 
>> if you have a deep queue of outstanding requests and one completes, you 
>> should poll a little more than normal.
>
>Except for target mode.

It could be argued that target mode is really networking rather
than storage :-)

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