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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: RFC: NAPI packet weighting patch
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:43:48 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:35:46 -0700

> > Everyone seems to have this absolute fetish about batching the RX
> > descriptor refilling work.  It's wrong, it should be done when you
> > pull a receive packet off the ring, for many reasons.  Off the top of
> > my head:
> > 
> > 1) Descriptors are refilled as soon as possible, decreasing
> >    the chance of the device hitting the end of the RX ring
> >    and thus unable to receive a packet.
> 
> IFF one pokes the NIC for each buffer right?

Or "every 5" or something like that.