From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC]: napi_struct V5 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:32:34 -0400 Message-ID: <1186587154.5155.43.camel@localhost> References: Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, shemminger@linux-foundation.org To: Shirley Ma Return-path: Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.182]:20586 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935766AbXHHPci (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:32:38 -0400 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j27so34636elf for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:32:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:14 -0700, Shirley Ma wrote: > Dave, could you please hold this portion of the patch for a moment. I > will test this patch ASAP. According to our previous experience, this > changes significant changes some IPoIB driver performance. > If you adjust your quantum while doing that testing you may find an optimal value. Think of a box where you have other network interfaces, the way you are implementing currently implies you are going to be very unfair to the other interfaces on the box. cheers, jamal