Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:56:00 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface | From | David Miller <> |
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From: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:41:43 +0100
> I don't recall saying anything in previous posts about this. Are you > confusing my posts with Jan-Bernd's?
Yes, my bad.
> Jan-Bernd has been talking about using hrtimers to _reschedule_ > NAPI. My posts are suggesting an alternative mechanism that keeps > NAPI active (with interrupts disabled) for a jiffy or two after it > would otherwise have gone idle in order to avoid too many interrupts > when the packet rate is such that NAPI thrashes between poll-on and > poll-off.
So in this scheme what runs ->poll() to process incoming packets? The hrtimer? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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