Re: 3c905C for a linux router
Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Donald Becker wrote: > Just to make this clear: > It's only an hour or two of writing to add the NAPI code. I don't have this hour or two ATM :-) > It's a week or two of testing to see if the code works as designed > with the different network adapters and work loads Well, the driver distributed with the kernel has different ISRs, so my choice is easy: just NAPI-fy boomerang_interrupt; somebody else with the hardware can do vortex_interrupt. I have here Cyclone and Tornado based NICs, I only miss Boomerang to test... > It's about a 1.5 years to decide if the NAPI structure is the right one. Yeah, but I'm certainly not the one to make this decision. Most if not all of the development that I've done was motivated by the need for higher/stable performance on our clusters :-) So if NAPI brings something positive here, I'll just use it; submitting it for inclusion in the kernel is only a side-effect :-) -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex