On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:55:03AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:47:24PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Hey Luigi, > > > > Have you actually measured the performance of rl(4) with polling(4) > > enabled? With 8139 anomaly of four (register based) TX descriptors > > no, nor i did expect any improvement -- the code was only there > to help when the 8139C+ was supported. But now that happens in > a different driver. > > Re. the removal, I still think it is beneficial in receiving, > (not performancewise, just to avoid livelock), so as a temporary > measure why don't you just short-circuit the logic that enables > polling in the driver rather than ripping it out completely ? > Do you mean it would be okay if I just trimmed the polling support in rl(4) to the RX part only? I actually considered doing this, just wasn't sure if it is good. ;)
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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