On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:02:27PM -0800, Eugene Surovegin wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:48:38AM +0800, Jacky Lam wrote: > > > > Thanks. My case is that I am using NetPerf to test the UDP performance. > > I am using a x86 with GigaEthernet card and sending packet to my 405EP in > > full speed. I find that the box nearly dead in first min and lost all > > packets. I know that it is unavoidable. But I want to know anyway to improve > > as much as possible. > > > > What is NAPI? How can I make use of it? > > Please, use google as I suggested and you find good discussion of the > problem you are experiencing. > > Right now, there is no publicly available NAPI-enabled driver for > 4xx, although I have something done in that direction, but unfortunately > I put this task on hold because of more urgent problems :( (maybe I'll > return to it this or next month)
Here is what I have done for a NAPI version of the driver. I don't have time either to do a patch or merge this up to the latest kernel. I have frozen down at 2.4.21-pre4 somewhere and I won't be merging anytime soon. It is stable for me. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 405napi.tgz Type: application/x-gtar Size: 28265 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20040120/ccd85303/attachment.tgz
