> > [Ram] I am assuming that this is with regards to msi-x interrupts. We > > Yes. > > And avoiding bouncing locks for device state between CPUs. > > > have done away with handling tx completion in the interrupt handler, and > > are instead handling them in the context of the transmit. The slow path, > > straggling transmit completions will be handled in the timer context. > > Ok -- hopefully you don't have bad corner cases from this when the pipe > is not fully filled and then causing longer latencies on completion. > Old NAPI sometimes suffered from such problems. [Ram] We have hit the driver pretty hard during testing and have not encountered any problems either on the network or host.
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