Ben Greear writes:
> Here is a patch that makes Tulip support NAPI. The vast bulk of these
> changes come from Robert Olsson's ftp site, I just pieced them together.
>
> It works good on my 4-port Tulip NICs, better than the default
> driver at least (no, I never tried the old HW-Mitigation option).
>
> This patch will also make use of Robert's skb-recycle patch if it's
> been applied, but through #ifdef magic, it should also work w/out
> that....
Hello!
Well skb recycling is "research" and should be used to challange to vm/slab
people to start with... And I guess you will get objections about the extra
stats as well.
I see you increased the RX-ring to 1024 pkts.
Did you really see any improvement with this?
Also I would be interested if you have any numbers for recycling patch?
Jamal and I spent some days after OLS to test and tune but it wasn't to
promising at that time but it's reworked now.
Cheers.
--ro
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