From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: questions on NAPI processing latency and dropped network packets Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:19:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20080115071950.GA1696@ff.dom.local> References: <478B86BA.1050706@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Friesen Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:49678 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752369AbYAOHNb (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:13:31 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so42783ugc.16 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:13:29 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <478B86BA.1050706@nortel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 14-01-2008 16:58, Chris Friesen wrote: ... > How close to bleeding edge do we need to be for it to be considered > acceptable to ask questions on netdev? > > Given that the embedded space tends to be perpetually stuck on older > kernels (our "current" release is based on 2.6.14) do you have any > suggestion on how we can obtain information that would be available on > netdev if we were using newer kernels? IMHO, checking this with a current stable, which probably you are going to do some day, anyway, should be 100% acceptable: giving some input to netdev, while still working for yourself. Regards, Jarek P.