Hi > Also, as far as the approach of using tasklets, I think it would be > better to use the "fake netdev" approach to continue to use NAPI. > Basically you create a pseudo-netdev for each receive queue and have > NAPI handle the polling for you -- you could look for > drivers/net/cxgb3 for an example of this. > Thanks for pointing us to this solution. We are now building a NAPI version that makes use of these pseudo-netdev. The fairness amongst other netdevices should be better this way.
> > Why make this a module option that the user has to set? Are there any > circumstances when someone wouldn't want "significant performance > improvements?" If this approach is just better, then it should just > replace the old code. > We'll change the default behaviour to multi queue, but we'd like to keep the option to run in a single queue mode for debug and backward compabilty. Thanks, Jan-Bernd & Christoph R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
