Kais Belgaied wrote: >Hi Deepti, > > > >>>You may check out the polling design published by Sunay in early this >>>year: >>>http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/Design_softringset.txt >>> >>> >>> >>> >>The pointed link is a very neat,complete crossbow guide. >> >>But, >>we are reviewing your design document of hardware resource management. >>and >>1) >>our discussion was regarding same interrupt number across ring-group and >>how it's useful. >> >>2) >>if ring-groups aren't supported in hardware, are you planning to emulate >>it in software. if we already do it, how? >> >> >> >The L2-level steering (classification based on MAC address or VLAN) is >what determines >the grouping. >If the hardware supports steering to N individual rings, then the >drivers should register >N groups with 1 ring in each. If the hardware cannot offer L2 steering >at all, then >it is a single group encompassing all the rings on the system. >Back to the specific question, there is always 1 group, at least. the >software in the framework >will no emulate the multiple rings. > > this explains it well to me. thanks, -Deepti
> Kais. > > > > >>pointing this link/doc. not in relevance with what we were discussing. >>If 1) and/or 2) above or its any other equivalent if achieving the same >>goal, >>if not in current scope of crossbow, I can understand that. >> >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >crossbow-discuss mailing list >crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss > >
