Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:10:17 -0400 | Subject | Re: how to improve the throughput of linux network | From | Jason Lunz <> |
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 6:59PM +0200, Filip Sneppe (Yucom) wrote: > Hey, that's funny. I downloaded NAPI patches from: > ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/
Yes, that's where the NAPI stuff originates. The core patch from that site is what made it into 2.5, and I backported it to 2.4 from there. There are no substantial differences between the three.
> How different are those patches from yours ? Did you just make > sure they all applied cleanly ?
While the core is mostly a matter of changing patch offsets, the driver patches are still a moving target. There are two different flavors of the e1000 NAPI patch, for example. The most recent tulip patch from the above FTP site is missing tulip_misc.c, so it must be replaced with a version from another patch. That file really is only code to report stats in /proc, though. There's yet another napified tulip driver that jamal posted a link to; I have yet to investigate that one.
But to answer your question, yes. I just found the most recent versions of various napi efforts and made them apply to a recent 2.4 kernel so people can easily try out the new net core.
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