On Thursday 06 January 2005 04:11 pm, Robert Olsson wrote:
> Jeremy M. Guthrie writes:
> > > I don't follow...
> >
> > Technically by turning off NAPI, I have 'solved' my short term packet
> > loss problem.
>
> You need NAPI of course just wait until your packet load increases just
> a little bit...
I agree. Running mpstat now shows that even w/o packet drops, I'm running
2-5% free CPU.
> I saw drops in your 2.4 /proc/net/softnet_stat which
> indicates you are close to your system performance.
Should those drops show up in RX drops in ifconfig?
> With NAPI you keep
> up your system system performance regardless of incoming load.
You mentioned before that " The stats didn't show any numbers so we don't know
your load." Was there a command you wanted me to re-run?
> The e1000 driver has some bugs in "your setup" as it enables irq's when
> there is only RX and no TX and should have irq's disabled. I sent patch
> to intel.
>
> --ro
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