From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5CN15nC017347 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:01:05 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5CN15ur017346 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:01:05 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from www.linux.org.uk (parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk [195.92.249.252]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5CN10nC017311; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:01:00 -0700 Received: from adsl-17-114-120.asm.bellsouth.net ([68.17.114.120] helo=mandrakesoft.com) by www.linux.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #5) id 17IH98-0004BT-00; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:03:22 +0100 Message-ID: <3D07D270.5060902@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:00:00 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/00200205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhang Fuxin CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, saw@saw.sw.com.sg, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: NAPI for eepro100 References: <3D0740ED.2060907@ict.ac.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Zhang Fuxin wrote: > hi,all > Recently i've converted eepro100 driver to use napi,in order to improve > network performance of my poor 150M mips machine. It does eliminate > the interrupt live lock seen before,maintaining a peak throughput under > heavy load. > In case anybody are interested,i post the patches to the list. They are > 3 incremental patchs: > eepro100-napi.patch is against 2.5.20 eepro100.c and provide basic > napi support Nifty, I'll take a look at this. > eepro100-proc.patch is proc file system support adapted from intel's > e100 driver. I am using it for debugging. > eepro100-mips.patch is mips specific patch to make it work(well) for > my mips > platform. Just FWIW I'm not gonna apply these... for the 'proc' patch, that either needs to be moved to ethtool, or we should make a filesystem for net drivers that exports procfs-like inodes. for the 'mips' patch, it looks like the arch maintainer(s) need to fix the PCI DMA support... Jeff