Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:12:33 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Per-interface polling(4) status Message-ID: <40796061.1020200@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040410222112.GA23046@ip.net.ua> References: <20040410222112.GA23046@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: [ ... ] > Points I'm not sure about, and would like to hear the comments on: > > - Should the initial polling status be on or off, on interfaces > that support it? The current version of the patch makes it > off by default. Given that polling will only take place if kern.polling.enable is set, IFF_POLLING can be enabled by default safely and changing the global sysctl will enable or disable all polling-capable interfaces, which retains the current behavior. > - Should I add the code to ether_poll_register() to sanity check > that the interface doesn't attempt to register itself more > than once? Sure. I don't see how having an interface registered multiple times will do any good....? -- -Chuck
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