netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 1/3] qlge: Move TX completion processing to send path.

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Message-Id: <20090821.132528.248292748.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:25:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ron.mercer@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shashank.pandhare@...gic.com,
	jagannatha.narayanaswami@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/3] qlge: Move TX completion processing to
 send path.

From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@...gic.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:23:01 -0700

> I'll move TX completions into NAPI as you indicated.  I still need to
> dedicate the MSIX vectors to RSS, but I will give each vector a number
> of TX rings to service in NAPI as well.

That might actually be, in fact, optimal.  Because if you process
the TX completions first this primes the SKB allocator up with
fresh SKBs to replenish the RX ring particularly in forwarding
workloads.
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