From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NAPI and TX
Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 14:27:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hbzuv4ub.fsf@intrepid.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090508.144412.201441401.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Fri\, 08 May 2009 14\:44\:12 -0700 \(PDT\)")
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> Many multiqueue drivers do exactly this. NIU is but one example.
>
> Every discrete event from the chip which can generate discrete
> interrupts, uses a unique NAPI context.
>
> If a single interrupt is used to indicate RX and TX, using seperate
> NAPI contexts is not advisable. It's just going to add overhead.
Great. Ben, David, Eric, thanks. I will try to use this.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-09 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-08 12:32 NAPI and TX Krzysztof Halasa
2009-05-08 14:24 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-08 15:12 ` [PATCH] net: reduce number of reference taken on sk_refcnt Eric Dumazet
2009-05-08 21:48 ` David Miller
2009-05-09 12:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-05-09 20:34 ` David Miller
2009-05-09 20:40 ` David Miller
2009-05-10 7:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-05-10 7:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-05-10 10:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-05-19 4:58 ` David Miller
2009-05-21 9:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-05-09 20:36 ` David Miller
2009-05-08 21:44 ` NAPI and TX David Miller
2009-05-09 12:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
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