cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/pc98/conf NOTES

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:58:11 +0300
Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:36:39AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> R> > Actually, the block with error can be safely removed from kern_poll.c before
> R> > we polish our patches. There is no problem running SMP + polling. Probably,
> R> > there were some problems in the past.
> R> > 
> R> > I think the block can be removed now and MFCed before 5.4-RELEASE. I'm quite
> R> > sure that our patches for Giant-less polling will not be MFCed soon.
> R> > 
> R> Take a look at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/, the last
> R> paragraph on the page.  I believe it still holds true these days.
> 
> I completely agree here, but this is not a reason to deny such configuration.
> What is nice in polling, is that some amount of CPU resources is reserved
> for userland. So, if box is not doing a pure forwarding job, but is a web
> server which is loaded both by userland applications and interrupts, a setup
> with polling and SMP will be very appropriate.

So, I remove the note I added and kill the block and we let users
test and report problems?  This may help you guys get better
patches in the tree.  Comments?

-- 
Tom Rhodes