On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:11:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> It will come back when net channels arrive :-) This is because net
> channel drivers will do all the work in hard IRQs and not in a NAPI or
> NAPI-like context.

I thought the current channel stuff is RX only.  Is TX completion moving
to IRQ context as well?

> The only regret I have about that is we will go back to not being able
> to profile ->hard_start_xmit() very well in such drivers.

Can you elborate on that? I think I've already removed all references
to this in my memory :)

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