From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: NAPI on 8139too
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:01:03 -0400
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Michele 'mydecay' Marchetto wrote:
> I was wondering why NAPI hasn't been ported on 8139too yet..


I think it would be a good idea.  You can stuff a lot of 68-byte packets 
into a 32K or 64K contiguous buffer.  Jes Sorensen wrote a patch a while 
ago that sampling the incoming rate, and backed off if the rate was too 
high -- basically a poor man's NAPI.

So, volunteers?  Just convert the RX path to NAPI, not all interrupt events.

	Jeff