From: James Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:41:43 +0100
> I don't recall saying anything in previous posts about this. Are you > confusing my posts with Jan-Bernd's? Yes, my bad. > Jan-Bernd has been talking about using hrtimers to _reschedule_ > NAPI. My posts are suggesting an alternative mechanism that keeps > NAPI active (with interrupts disabled) for a jiffy or two after it > would otherwise have gone idle in order to avoid too many interrupts > when the packet rate is such that NAPI thrashes between poll-on and > poll-off. So in this scheme what runs ->poll() to process incoming packets? The hrtimer? - 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
