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From: Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>
To: charles.eidsness@ieee.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Au1000 Ethernet Driver using NAPI
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:34:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B78F83.9010001@embeddedalley.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B764AB.5070201@ieee.org>


Very cool, thanks. Is the patch for 2.4 or 2.6?

Pete

Charles Eidsness wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was having a problem running a streaming audio application on my 
> Au1000 processor when the Ethernet port was being bombarded with 
> packets. All of the interrupt servicing was hogging my precious 
> processing power and there was nothing left for my app. There's a new 
> method for writing Ethernet drivers called NAPI which resolves this 
> issue (somewhat). I converted the au1000's Ethernet driver to use this 
> method. If you're interested you can find a patch that applys my changes 
> to the most recent kernel here:
> 
> http://members.rogers.com/charles.eidsness/linux-au1000_eth.napi.patch
> 
> Cheers,
> Charles
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-08 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-08 20:31 Au1000 Ethernet Driver using NAPI Charles Eidsness
2004-12-08 23:34 ` Pete Popov [this message]
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2004-12-09  1:05 Charles Eidsness

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