At 9:09 PM -0500 2/8/01, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>One possible right way to deal with this is to get rid of the
>two-level interrupt scheme (for fast interfaces at least) and push the
>packets all the way through the network stack. This will ensure that
>if packets are arriving faster than we can handle them, they will be
>dropped by the network interface with an ``insufficient resources''
>error.
>
>Another possible right way to deal with this is to move all network
>processing into the lower level, and poll round-robin for packets
>(with network interrupts disabled) until all network interfaces are
>finished (or we need to give the user a time slice).
>
>Both techniques were described in a paper by Jeff Mogul (then at DEC
>in Palo Alto) about five years ago; I have a physical copy of the
>paper buried somewhere in my office.
Is this the paper you were referring to?
<http://www.research.compaq.com/wrl/techreports/abstracts/95.8.html>
Mark
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