* Sam Fourman Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-07 04:44]: > I guess on this Subject I need educated because I am not all together > sure what interrupt mitigation is and why I want it.
traditionally, and interrupt cards intterupts once per packet it has received (or successfully sent, but let us ignore the tx path for now). interrupt mitigation, coalescing, *insert name-of-the-day for int mitgation here* etc all describe teh same thing, a certain heuristic to not interrupt once per packet, but once for a bunch. this is usually achieved by a combination of amount of packets (i. e. "interrupt every 25 packets") or bytes and a timer (to make sure there is no packet sitting in the rx queue for too long). -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
