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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: RFC: NAPI packet weighting patch
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:23:32 -0700

> There also seems to be some misconceptions about changing the weight
> value.  It actually improves the performance of other drivers as well.
> Not as much as it improves the e1000 performance but it does seem to
> help others as well.

One reason it helps e1000 more, which Robert Olsson mentioned, could
be the HW irq mitigation settings used by the e1000 driver.  Lowering
these would be a good test.