Re: [PATCH 7/7]: [NET]: Make -poll() breakout consistent in Intel ethernet drivers.

2008-01-08 Thread Kok, Auke
David Miller wrote: [NET]: Make -poll() breakout consistent in Intel ethernet drivers. This makes the -poll() routines of the E100, E1000, E1000E, IXGB, and IXGBE drivers complete -poll() consistently. Now they will all break out when the amount of RX work done is less than 'budget'.

Re: [PATCH 7/7]: [NET]: Make -poll() breakout consistent in Intel ethernet drivers.

2008-01-08 Thread David Miller
From: Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:04:59 -0800 this is exactly the change I was eyeballing and indeed this seems to be the general use case in most drivers anyway. I'll try to see how this impacts the (especially 4-port) TX performance issue with e1000e, but this

[PATCH 7/7]: [NET]: Make -poll() breakout consistent in Intel ethernet drivers.

2008-01-07 Thread David Miller
[NET]: Make -poll() breakout consistent in Intel ethernet drivers. This makes the -poll() routines of the E100, E1000, E1000E, IXGB, and IXGBE drivers complete -poll() consistently. Now they will all break out when the amount of RX work done is less than 'budget'. At a later time, we may want