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Re: Info: NAPI performance at "low" loads

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Subject: Re: Info: NAPI performance at "low" loads
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:00:14 -0700 (PDT)
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   From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
   Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:57:58 -0400 (EDT)
   
   I am not so sure with that 6% difference there is no other bug lurking
   there; 6% seems too large for an extra two PCI transactions per packet.

{in,out}{b,w,l}() operations have a fixed timing, therefore his
results doesn't sound that far off.

It is also one of the reasons I suspect Andrew saw such bad results
with 3c59x, but probably that is not the only reason.


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