From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:29:05 +0100
> In 2.4 we used to have (haven't checked recently) performance regressions > with NAPI vs non NAPI (or versus the old BCM vendor driver) on tg3 for > some workloads that didn't fully fill the link. The theory was always > that the reason for that was something like the regular switching in > and out. So I think we saw that problem on tg3 too. It was because we originally didn't program the HW interrupt mitigation settings at all when using NAPI, now we do and the problem is long gone. -- 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
