On 10/24/09 02:39, Reang Su wrote:
> 
> 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?

You can use max_rx() instead of mac_rx_ring(), but also be sure *not* to 
report to the mac layer about the rings capab [via mc_getcapab()].

There are still a lot of drivers in the ON gate that use mac_rx() over 
mac_rx_ring(). Just look for the symbol in the cross reference.

HTH,
Pavan
>  
> Thanks a lot.
>  
> ~Reang.
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Sunay Tripathi <Sunay.Tripathi at sun.com 
> <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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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