[Click] About dynamic polling

[shule ney]

What I'm thinking about is when the incoming packet rate is low, high rate
polling is not needed and you can make use of CPU to do other tasks, while
if you are always 100%, it's not possible.

2011/4/13 Adam Greenhalgh <a.greenhalgh at cs.ucl.ac.uk>

> Unless I'm wrong, the click router exploits the idle cycles of the
> kernel to undertake its polling and other tasks. So unless you are
> wanting to undertake power management, why are you worried about the
> CPU being at 100% if click is just filling the idle tasks ? I am sure
> Eddie or someone else will correct me if I am wrong.
>
> adam
>
> On 13 April 2011 16:40, shule ney <neyshule at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all:
> > I'm using intel 8254 family NIC, now I want to make the polling
> > mechanism dynamically(now it's constant rate polling and CPU usage is
> always
> > 100%), is there any suitable patch for my setups? Thanks very much to
> reply.
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