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Re: [patch] forcedeth: add support for interrupt mitigation

To: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch] forcedeth: add support for interrupt mitigation
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:42:53 -0400
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:29:08PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> > The current forcedeth driver doesn't support interrupt mitigation, this 
> > can result in an incredible number of interrupts/sec for gigabit links. 
> > The attached patch adds a throughput mode that enables an interrupt 
> > mitigation scheme.
> 
> Naïve question: what about the NAPI way ?

I was thinking the same thing...although it appears forcedeth already
supports NAPI...

What does this offer over the NAPI support?

John
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