From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: NAPI and TX Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 14:32:25 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:41259 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752814AbZEHMc0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 08:32:26 -0400 Received: from intrepid.localdomain (intrepid.localdomain [10.0.0.2]) by khc.piap.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDBA4F023 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 14:32:25 +0200 (CEST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Could NAPI or something similar be used for TX in addition to RX? Perhaps some driver already does that? I'm specifically thinking of IXP4xx Ethernet (and possibly WAN), those are 266-667 MHz ARM XScale CPUs and the interrupts handling just transmitted sk_buffs are a pain. Could I delay those interrupts somehow? -- Krzysztof Halasa