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Re: SYSTIMER device polling


From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 09:05:26 -0700 (PDT)

:On 11:10, Fri 07 Oct 05, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
:> Hi all,
:>=20
:> Following patch(against HEAD) make device polling utilize seperate
:> systimer, instead of hard clock:
:> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/systimer_poll.diff
:>=20
:> Tested with fxp(4)
:>=20
:> Please review it.
:>=20
:> Cheers,
:> sephe
:>=20
:> --
:> Live Free or Die
:
:I like it. But maybe struct systimer for device polling should be moved to
:struct globaldata the others gd_*clocks are?
:
:By the way, is it possible to pull for device a on cpu0 and device b on
:cpu1? I mean destributing the device pulling work amoung multiple cpus.
:
:--=20
:Alexander 'alxl' Lobachov	mailto:alxl@xxxxxxxxx
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    The current polling implementation is basically just on cpu 0, so for
    this first stage we should probably keep it on cpu 0.  In that light,
    the patch is fine and I will be committing it.
 
					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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