From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
Netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>, Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] forcedeth: add support for interrupt mitigation
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:42:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051021204251.GC28212@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051021202908.GA18966@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:29:08PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> :
> > The current forcedeth driver doesn't support interrupt mitigation, this
> > can result in an incredible number of interrupts/sec for gigabit links.
> > The attached patch adds a throughput mode that enables an interrupt
> > mitigation scheme.
>
> Naïve question: what about the NAPI way ?
I was thinking the same thing...although it appears forcedeth already
supports NAPI...
What does this offer over the NAPI support?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-21 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-21 18:13 [patch] forcedeth: add support for interrupt mitigation Manfred Spraul
2005-10-21 20:29 ` Francois Romieu
2005-10-21 20:42 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2005-10-21 21:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
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2005-10-21 21:10 Ayaz Abdulla
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