netdev - [PATCH 10/13] forcedeth: add interrupt moderation logic

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Message-ID: <49B013B2.6050802@nvidia.com>
Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:02:26 -0500
From:	Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>
To:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	nedev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 10/13] forcedeth: add interrupt moderation logic

This patch adds the logic to moderate the interrupts by changing the 
mode between throughput and poll. If there has been a large amount of 
time without any burst of network load, the code will transition to pure 
throughput mode (where each tx/rx/other will cause an interrupt). If 
bursts of network load occurs, it will transition to poll based mode to 
help reduce cpu utilization (it will not interrupt on each packet) while 
maintaining the optimum network bandwidth utilization.

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>

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