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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: forcedeth driver NAPI?
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 12:11:51 -0700
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Has anyone looked into making this driver use NAPI?  This would fix
the IRQ overload problem and a number of other DoS risks.
Also, if done right the device lock could be reduced to just
a transmit lock.