Re: disabling NAPI poll

2005-11-21 Thread Aritz Bastida
Well, the answer to that is quite long, and it's precisely the purpose of my research. But, in short, what i need is to capture network packets as fast as possible, and turn off the incoming packet feeding when too many packets arrive. Don't now yet if you think the solution I proposed in my previo

Re: disabling NAPI poll

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:53:27 +0100 Aritz Bastida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the answer to that is quite long, and it's precisely the purpose > of my research. But, in short, what i need is to capture network > packets as fast as possible, and turn off the incoming packet feeding > when too

Re: disabling NAPI poll

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:58:10 +0100 Aritz Bastida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody > > I need to turn off and on the polling done to a network device > which works with NAPI. I'll explain: whenever it arrives a > packet-receive interrupt the network driver issues > netif_rx_schedule(),

Re: disabling NAPI poll

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:42:29 +0100 Aritz Bastida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just subscribed to netdev. I used to write in the linux-net > mailing list, but there is little activity in there. > > > > > > > > What I need is to turn off and on the polling done to a network device > > > whi

Re: disabling NAPI poll

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:56:32 +0100 Aritz Bastida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote The network developers don't always read lkml, please move this thread to netdev@vger.kernel.org > Hello everybody. > > What I need is to turn off and on the polling done to a network device > which works with NAPI. I'll