On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:03:04AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> using the NAPI poll function
Still fiddling with this. Getting side-tracked after noticing
that the RX side generates a *huge* numbe of interrupts, despite
code in the driver which superficially appears to be RX NAPI.
One step forw
On Saturday 19 August 2006 00:26, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> The recent set of low-waterark patches for the spider result in a
> significant amount of computing being done in an interrupt context.
> This patch moves this to a "bottom half" aka work queue, so that
> the code runs in a normal kernel cont
The recent set of low-waterark patches for the spider result in a
significant amount of computing being done in an interrupt context.
This patch moves this to a "bottom half" aka work queue, so that
the code runs in a normal kernel context. Curiously, this seems to
result in a performance boost o