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Re: 2.6.7 tulip performance (with NAPI)

To: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.6.7 tulip performance (with NAPI)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:08:26 -0700
Cc: Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:56:05 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It may be that other programs would like to use the notify_queue_woken hook, 
> so
> if this were ever to hit the kernel proper, might want to make this a linked 
> list
> of callbacks instead of a simple pointer.

This sort of suggests that pktgen may be better implemented
via a kind of special queueing discipline.  Just an idea.

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