Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:31:48 -0600 From: Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: polling's future [was: Re: Dynamic Ticks/HZ] Message-ID: <32992731.3rb8pPz1Mv@blackbeast.local> In-Reply-To: <5098F64E.1070704@freebsd.org> References: <509758B8.1000409@rewt.org.uk> <20121106113014.GA26313@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <5098F64E.1070704@freebsd.org>
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On Tuesday, November 06, 2012 12:36:46 PM Andre Oppermann wrote: > On 06.11.2012 12:30, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 11:23:34AM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > ... > > > >> Hi Luigi, > >> > >> do you agree on polling having outlived its usefulness in the light > >> of interrupt moderating NIC's and SMP complications/disadvantages? > > > > yes, we should let it rest in peace. > > Thank you for this non-complicated answer. :-) > I worry about what happens for those people who would be running FreeBSD on older equipment where polling might still make sense. Do we throw them under the bus? -- Chuck Burns
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