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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: NAPI, e100, and system performance problem
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:37:25 -0400
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On Fri, 2005-22-04 at 16:52 +0200, Robert Olsson wrote:

>  
>   BTW We talked with Intel folks about leaving irq disabled when reading
>   ISR and some status bit were. 

You caught me just before i said this ;-> 
Now - if those intel folks listened they would be making a killing with
their NICs on Linux. They have a paper at OLS to talk about how they get
influenced by the Linux people on how to improve their hardware - so
maybe they took the advice;-> Jesse?

Note, this would entirely solve what Andi and the SGI people are talking
about.

cheers,
jamal