On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:50:39PM -0800, A Rossi wrote: > Thanks! > Any particular reason, other than that OBSD focuses on correctness and > security rather than speed? > Or is there a security problem with polling? >
Polling is not better than normal interrupt driven networking. It often results in worst speed, packet loss and always in higher delay. There are better ideas how to avoid livelock without the problems of polling. > Ted Unangst wrote: > > On 2/22/06, A Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was looking through the man pages on the OBSD site, and I can't > >> seem to find a page giving the status of polling (whether its > >> supported or not) on any of the network drivers. > > > > it's not supported. > -- :wq Claudio
