netdev - Re: Question about tg3 and bnx2 driver suppliers

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Date:	Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:19:25 +0100
From:	Micha Nelissen <micha@...i.hopto.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Michael Durket <durket@...hwire.stanford.edu>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about tg3 and bnx2 driver suppliers

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> One possible cause of packet drops is when softirqs are disabled for too
> long periods, even if NIC has a big RX ring (check ethtool -g eth0)

Why aren't the softirqs converted to workqueues? Wouldn't that cut 
dependencies to other softirq users and improve latency?

Probably a stupid question, thanks.

Micha
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