netdev - Re: macb napi strange behavior

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Date:	Sat, 20 Jun 2015 18:43:32 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:	Nicolae Rosia <nicolae.rosia@...il.com>,
	Jaeden Amero <jaeden.amero@...com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
	Josh Cartwright <joshc@...com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: macb napi strange behavior

Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> :
[...]
> Typically, NAPI is used at the receive side of the Ethernet NIC/driver
> to lower the hard/soft interrupt context switch, although there is
> nothing that prevent you to implement a similar scheme for the
> transmit side. Usually, for transmit you will be submitting one packet
> for transmission and get a completion interrupt, so without interrupt
> coalescing (software or hardware) you can end-up with 1 interrupt per
> packet transmitted.

The wording is a bit shy: there is a long standing policy to move
everything to NAPI context (as well as go mostly lockless, etc.).

Any taker to move macb Tx processing to NAPI context or should I consider it ?

-- 
Ueimor
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