[REVIEW/TEST] polling(4) changes

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050930134526.R71864 at fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes:
>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> I still think we should stop having this network-centric view of polling 
>> and implement _real_ *device* polling, so that other device types can 
>> use it as well.
>
>While I agree that we should offer polling to non-network device drivers 
>also, I think it's worth observing that the network awareness of our 
>current polling code has some interesting advantages.  [...]

None of which could not be implemented on top of a general polling
facility, and some of which makes polling unusable with high end
networking hardware like a 8x1Gige card where all ports are handled
by the same interrupt.

Anyway, I just wanted to make the point, not start a long discussion.

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