On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 17:26 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote: > Adds a new ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports and uses it. > This method can be used by low latency applications to busy poll ethernet > device queues directly from the socket code. The ip_low_latency_poll sysctl > entry controls how many cycles to poll. Set to zero to disable. [...]
One more general point: why is this treated as an IPv4 option (in Kconfig and sysctls)? I don't have any particular expectation that it will be used with network protocols other than IPv4 and v6 any time soon, but logically it's not dependent on them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
