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From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:10:15 +0200

> In the end I want to reduce the CPU utilization. And one way
> to do that is LRO which also works only well if there are more
> then just a very few packets to aggregate. So at least our
> driver (eHEA) would benefit from a mix of timer based polling
> and plain NAPI (depending on load situations).
> 
> If there is no need for a generic mechanism for this kind of
> network adapters, then we can just leave this to each device
> driver.

No objections from me either way, if something works then
fine.

Let's come back to this once you have a tested sample implementation
that does what you want, ok?