Messages in this thread | | | From | Jan-Bernd Themann <> | Subject | Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:31:30 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 29 August 2007 10:29, David Miller wrote: > 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?
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