netdev - Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

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Message-Id: <200708291031.31923.ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:31:30 +0200
From:	Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jchapman@...alix.com, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	akepner@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, raisch@...ibm.com,
	themann@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, meder@...ibm.com, tklein@...ibm.com,
	stefan.roscher@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 10:29, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...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?

Sounds good
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