Ok, Is there any other way from driver writer's perspective to disable it?

What will happen if I only use mac_rx() instead of mac_rx_ring() ?
Please shed some light on its difference?

Thanks a lot.

~Reang.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Sunay Tripathi <Sunay.Tripathi at 
sun.com>wrote:

> It depends on the NIC. If you are using anything other than nxge, just
> create a VNIC (don't plumb it) and polling on primary NIC will get
> disabled. This is a bug that is being fixed but right now the
> easiest way.
>
> Cheers,
> Sunay
>
> Reang Su wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to check performance with and without dynamic poll(legacy)
>> feature in OpenSolaris.
>>
>> Can anybody know what could be the easiest way ?
>>
>> regards,
>> ~Surjit.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Gireesh Nagabhushana <
>> dngireesh at gmail.com <mailto:dngireesh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Why do you want to disable it?
>>
>>    -- Gireesh
>>
>>
>>    On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 18:00 +0530, Reang Su wrote:
>>     > Hi,
>>     >
>>     > Anybody has tried disabling MAC_CAPAB_RINGS feature.
>>     > Is this a must feature to have in our driver for OpenSolaris stack
>> to
>>     > work? Or we can still live without this ?
>>     >
>>     > regards,
>>     > ~Reang.
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