On 8/1/05, Rami Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polling is usually discouraged in linux device drivers , but there are > cases (like when the interrupt rate is very high) in which this > technique can improve > performance.
I'm just intrigued by this - how feasable would it be to write a driver (and have support in the device hardware) that uses interrupts but switches to NAPI when the input rate peaks, then switches back to interrupts when the rate drops again? Cheers, --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
