From: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Linux Network Development list <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make tg3 NAPI support configurable
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:12:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4001E673.59994F40@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4000ABBA.50601@pobox.com
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Robert Olsson wrote:
> > You can use coalescing with NAPI as well, e1000 and other drivers
> > are doing this. This will give you same interrupt rates as non-
> > NAPI at low load and "polling" without any interrupts at high load.
>
> Yes, this is something I've been meaning to add to tg3 for months now.
I'd be very happy to test patches on an Altix, where this issue is a
significant networking scaling limitation.
Greg.
--
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-12 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-19 12:48 [PATCH] make tg3 NAPI support configurable Greg Banks
2003-12-19 13:20 ` Robert Olsson
2004-01-11 1:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-12 0:12 ` Greg Banks [this message]
2004-01-13 19:09 ` Robert Olsson
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2004-01-14 0:23 Feldman, Scott
2004-01-15 8:01 jc
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