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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix Tsi108 ethernet driver performance
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:27:34 -0400
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	Zang Roy-r61911 <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexandre Bounine <Alexandre.Bounine@tundra.com>
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Alexandre Bounine wrote:
> From: Alexandre Bounine <alexandreb@tundra.com>
> 
> This patch improves performance of the Tsi108 Ethernet driver by
> changing interrupt handling for frame receive path. It reduces number of
> interrupts generated for received frames and therefore lowers CPU
> utilization by the device driver.
>    
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandreb@tundra.com>

Look into NAPI...