Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:18:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On 4 Oct 2001, Robert Love wrote: > > > > > > Agreed. I am actually amazed that the opposite of what is happening > > > does not happen -- that more people aren't clamoring for this solution. > > > > Ehh.. I think that most people who are against Ingo's patches are so > > mainly because there _is_ an alternative that looks nicer. > > > > Linus > > The alternative (NAPI) only works with Tulip and Intel NICs, it seems. > When the alternative works for every driver known (including 3rd party > ones, like the e100), then it will truly be an alternative. Untill > then, it will be a great feature for those who can use it, and the > rest of the poor folks will need a big generic hammer.
NAPI needs aware drivers and introduces changes to the queue processing ( packets left in DMA ring ) and it'll be at least 2.5.x It's clearly a nicer solution that does not suffer of drawbacks that Ingo's code have. Ingo's patch is more hack-ish but addresses the problem with minimal changes.
- Davide
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