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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:06:18 +0000
Subject: RE: [Patch] speed up interrupt handling
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>>>>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:44:38 +1100, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:

>>>>> "Scott" = Scott Feldman <Feldman> writes:

  >>> Is this related to NAPI?

  >>> I'll assume "the gigabit" card is e1000:

  Peter> Nope, DP83820.  I'm benchmarking a driver that runs in
  Peter> userspace against the in-kernel driver; both benefit from the
  Peter> interrupt speedup.

So why is irq enabling/disabling on the critical path for this driver?

	--david