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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: forcedeth driver NAPI?
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 21:35:53 +0200
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On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:11, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.

Making it support netpoll would be nice too.

-Andi