netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 2/5] net: implement support for low latency socket polling

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Date:	Wed, 29 May 2013 18:01:24 +0300
From:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
To:	yaniv saar <yaniv.mellanox@...il.com>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 2/5] net: implement support for low latency
 socket polling

On 29/05/2013 17:20, yaniv saar wrote:
> Hi Eliezer,
>
> (If I'm too late then a future note...)
> Why make polling a system-wide configuration?
> Wouldn't it make more sense to implement a sock option?
> An even better solution might be aggregation/combination of both types of
> configurations.
>
> -- Yaniv Sa'ar

We plan on adding a socket option in the future.

-Eliezer
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