Re: [RFC] HOWTO use NAPI to reduce TX interrupts

Linas Vepstas
2006-08-21T23:52:51Z

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:25:18PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> What is the best way to treat the IRQ mask for TX interrupts?
> I guess it should be roughly:
>
> - off when we expect ->poll() to be called, i.e. after calling
> netif_rx_schedule() or returning after a partial rx from poll().

Under what circumstance does one turn TX interrupts back on?
I couldn't quite figure that out.

--linas