SMP, DEVICE_POLLING and fxp LOR

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 31 03:20:40 PDT 2005


Hi Jeremie,

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:10:47PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > This LOR is well-known and will go away as soon as we commit our WIP
> > changes for polling(4).  I have no firm plans when it happens though.
> 
> would you please tell us quickly what is the ongoing work on polling(4) ?
> 
Its goal is to remove the Giant from the polling code.  I think it's
in the stage where it needs a broader testing and user's feedback,
but I'm not leading this effort, so I'll let others to decide if it
is time for a broader review or not.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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