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From: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 2/5] net: implement support for low latency
 socket polling
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 18:01:24 +0300
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	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@tamir.org.il>
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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