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Message-Id: <20100321.212449.85412927.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:24:49 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: peter.chubb@...ta.com.au Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improved network performance by balancing Rx against other work From: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@...ta.com.au> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:19:54 +1100 > David> It's one of the best drivers in the locking area. > > It looked good from that aspect, but used too many features of NAPI > for me to modify quickly, and still have a simple and > easy-to-understand patch. What's so complicated about it? All of the NAPI logic is locks into a wrapper function that encapsulates all of the top-level budget and interrupt masking logic. > Anyway, I'm intending to try to reproduce the results with a different > driver, as I said. Well, you do so at your own peril. tg3 is the best, whereas r8169 is really awful and people report NAPI wedges with it all the time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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