Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:33:40 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ehea: Optional TX/RX path optimized for SMP |
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On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:28:28AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 04:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com> writes: > > > > > > Are there any concerns about this approach? > > > > Yes. You should fix the NAPI code instead of trying to work > > around it. > > NAPI is being fixed but the fix will take time to get in. In the > meantime, the solution to get something working is the workaround
If it works right now with just a little less efficiency there is no pressing need to do workarounds until the real solution.
Besides I doubt that patch would have made .21 anyways and in .22 you might already have multiqueue NAPI.
-Andi
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