From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Don Cohen <don-linux@isis.cs3-inc.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: proposed optimization for network drivers
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:18:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA03363.5060807@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16032.7069.454420.811252@isis.cs3-inc.com>
Don Cohen wrote:
> In part I agree. I would have preferred to make my change in one
> place instead of one driver at a time. On the other hand, it seems to
> me that some of these details are already spread around all the
> drivers. For instance, why does every driver have to call
> eth_type_trans? Could that be delayed for netif_rx ?
>
> I do think it's reasonable for a driver to test whether the upper
> layers are ready to process another packet. I suggest that this
> test be encapsulated into a new function that can be changed at the
> cost of only recompiling all the drivers.
Why not NAPI? That is the existing mechanism provided to let the upper
layer feedback to the low-level driver system congestion information.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-18 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-17 6:56 proposed optimization for network drivers Don Cohen
2003-04-18 8:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-04-18 15:37 ` Don Cohen
2003-04-18 15:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-04-18 16:22 ` Don Cohen
2003-04-18 17:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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