Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.201]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8F5oc1R026771 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:50:39 -0700 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so140462rnk for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.96.12 with SMTP id t12mr331895rnb; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.99.58 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5cac192f04091422506d13c530@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:50:28 +0200 From: Eric Lemoine Reply-To: Eric Lemoine To: Harald Welte Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add NAPI support to sungem.c Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20040914200238.GM8434@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040914153537.GE8434@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20040914124315.716e9c68.davem@davemloft.net> <20040914200238.GM8434@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> X-archive-position: 8834 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: eric.lemoine@gmail.com Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 730 Lines: 22 On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:02:38 +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:43:15PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > Harald.... check current BK it has NAPI support added > > to the sungem.c driver already, it was written by Eric Lemoine > > with some fixes by myself and benh :-) > > Gnah, I hate duplicated efforts. Well, I learned a bit about NIC > drivers, though :( Your patch has the netpoll bits while current BK does not. > Before I start NAPI-enabling natsemi.c (and again duplicate work): Do > you know of anybody working on this yet? I'm not ;-) PS: If you happened to experiment with the NAPIfied SunGEM driver on your setup, could you please share the data. Thx. -- Eric