Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:29:16 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:10:15 +0200
> In the end I want to reduce the CPU utilization. And one way > to do that is LRO which also works only well if there are more > then just a very few packets to aggregate. So at least our > driver (eHEA) would benefit from a mix of timer based polling > and plain NAPI (depending on load situations). > > If there is no need for a generic mechanism for this kind of > network adapters, then we can just leave this to each device > driver.
No objections from me either way, if something works then fine.
Let's come back to this once you have a tested sample implementation that does what you want, ok? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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