Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:30:29 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half |
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Linas Vepstas wrote: > Please apply and forward upstream. This patch requires the previous > sequence of 4 spidernet patches to be applied. > > --linas > > > The recent set of low-waterark patches for the spider result in a > significant amount of computing being done in an interrupt context. > This patch moves this to a "bottom half" aka work queue, so that > the code runs in a normal kernel context. Curiously, this seems to > result in a performance boost of about 5% for large packets. > > Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> > Cc: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com> > Cc: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Let's not reinvented NAPI, shall we...
Jeff
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