From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000 fixes (NAPI)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:13:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDD141F.4010402@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15835.56316.564937.169193@robur.slu.se>
Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> One other comment. Does NAPI handle the issue of refilling the RX ring
> from interrupt? This is the source of the problem, not packet
> delvery, which
> is handled from a softirq handler.
NAPI poll does not happen in an interrupt. Doing things in interrupts
is the source of problems that NAPI is trying to solve.
Other than that, please read the code and NAPI paper... :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-21 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-20 19:01 e1000 fixes (NAPI) Robert Olsson
2002-11-20 23:43 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-11-21 10:43 ` Robert Olsson
2002-11-21 18:05 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-11-21 18:10 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-11-21 17:13 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-11-21 18:30 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-11-21 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-21 22:03 ` Jeff V. Merkey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-21 1:18 Feldman, Scott
2002-11-22 10:21 Robert Olsson
2002-11-22 19:05 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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