Re: [lwip-users] raw lwIP on uC, timer or Ethernet Interrupt?

[Bill Auerbach]

>BTW - it sounds like you are polling the ethernet input.  I personally
>dislike polling when an interrupt is available.  But you cannot rely on
>the timing of packets arriving.

However, depending on the processor, at GBpbs speeds the packet interrupt
overhead becomes significant over polling.  This might be why some
processors (e.g. the PowerPC PowerQUICC) have the option to interrupt after
N number of packets or M microseconds since last packet.  

Bill