See http://lwn.net/2001/1004/kernel.php3 this weeks lwn.net kernel
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Balbir

Dan Kegel wrote:

>Manfred wrote:
>
>>NAPI seems to be very promising to fix the total system overload case
>>(so many packets arrive that despite irq mitigation the system is still
>>overloaded).
>>
>
>What's NAPI?
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