On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 01:42, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > Yes, as far as I know - the Broadcom Tigeon3 driver does not have the > option of enabling/disabling RX polling (if we agree that is what we're > talking about), but looking in tg3.c it seems that it *always* > unconditionally uses NAPI...
I've whined and moaned about this in the past, but for all its faults NAPI on tg3 doesn't lose packets. It does cause a huge increase in irq cpu time on multiple fast CPUs. What irq rate are you seeing? I did once post a patch to make NAPI for tg3 selectable at configure time. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=107183822710263&w=2 > No dropped packets... I wonder if the tg3 driver is being completely > honest about this... At one point it wasn't, since this patch it is: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=108433829603319&w=2 Greg. -- Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. I don't speak for SGI. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
