Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 02:39:39 +0000 (GMT) From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, "current @ freebsd . org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0104180238240.15004-100000@www.everquick.net> In-Reply-To: <200104180234.f3I2Yuq17047@earth.backplane.com>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:34:56 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> > > Yes. Also NICs usually have circular buffers for packets so, really, > only one cpu can be processing a particular NIC's packets at any given > moment. We could always have a mutex for each NIC's ring buffer... *ducking and running* Sorry... couldn't resist. :-) Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. EverQuick Internet / EternalCommerce Division Phone: (316) 794-8922 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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