Interrupts + Polling mode (similar to Linux's NAPI)

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2009/4/30 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:
> 2009/4/29 Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se>:
>> That appearance is probably due to the fact the the FreeBSD project actually
>> is a bunch of dudes working on what they feel like doing (or in a few cases
>> on what they get paid for doing), and that there is very little centralized
>> planning being done. (And even if there was, there is no way of enforcing
>> that people work according to such a plan.)
>
> There's more centralised planning in the network stack then you seem
> to think there is.
>
> Personally, I'd like to see some of the multi-thread em stuff (iirc
> for non-multi-threaded cards) that some company has written and kept
> up to date make it into -current as it obviously works for them and
> may work well for other people.

My part of fyi.
That company is Yandex - the one of the largest Russian search engines
(first of all) :p [1][2].

[1] http://people.yandex-team.ru/~wawa/
[2] http://company.yandex.com/general_info/yandex_today.xml

(just my 2 Russian copecks)

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