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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] 2.4.x net driver updates
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:40:37 -0700 (PDT)
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   From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
   Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:27:50 +0200

   Any info about the RX_POLLING (NAPI) option for e1000 ?
   What is that for ?

Software based interrupt mitigation, see:

Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt

and more specifically:

http://www.cyberus.ca/~hadi/usenix-paper.tgz