Homework: Homework: Receive Livelock
Submit two items to the the submission web
site:
- Submit your own question about the paper (e.g., what you find most
confusing about the paper or the paper's general context/problem) before lecture (1pm).
You cannot use the question below. To the extent possible, during lecture we will try to answer questions submitted the evening before. Upload your question as sq{lecture number}.txt, which in this case is sq17.txt.
- Submit your answer for the question below before the beginning of the lecture. Upload your answer as hw{homework number}.txt, which in this case is hw2.txt.
This lecture will provide an introduction to networking in operating systems.
Please read the assigned paper, which describes a common performance pitfall
in networking processing.
Answer the following question:
Explain the drawbacks of relying only on polling (to the exclusion of
interrupts).