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From: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org>
Subject: Re: Question about tg3 and bnx2 driver suppliers
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:19:25 +0100
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Eric Dumazet wrote:
> One possible cause of packet drops is when softirqs are disabled for too
> long periods, even if NIC has a big RX ring (check ethtool -g eth0)

Why aren't the softirqs converted to workqueues? Wouldn't that cut 
dependencies to other softirq users and improve latency?

Probably a stupid question, thanks.

Micha