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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:29:42 -0500
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:51:16PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> I see you moving TX reclaim into tasklets and stuff.  I've vehemently
> against that because you wouldn't need it in order to move TX
> processing into software interrupts if you did it all in NAPI
> ->poll().

I don't understand what you are saying. If I call the transmit 
queue cleanup code from the poll() routine, nothing hapens, 
because the kernel does not call the poll() routine often 
enough. I've stated this several times.  

--linas