Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:58:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | jamal <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> jamal wrote: > > > No. NAPI is for any type of network activities not just for routers or > > sniffers. It works just fine with servers. What do you see in there that > > will make it not work with servers? > > Will NAPI patch, as it sits today, fix all IRQ lockup problems for > all drivers (as Ingo's patch claims to do), or will it just fix > drivers (eepro, tulip) that have been integrated with it?
Unfortunately amongst the three of us tulip seemed to be the most common. Robert has a gige intel. So patches appear only for those two drivers. I could write up a document on how to change drivers.
cheers, jamal
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