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From: "Feldman, Scott" <scott.feldman@intel.com>
To: "'Jeff V. Merkey'" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>,
       Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: e1000 fixes (NAPI)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:18:51 -0800
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> Need another fix.  You need to reinstrument the tasklet 
> schedule in the fill_rx_ring instread of doing the whole thing from 
> interrupt.  When the system is loaded at 100% saturation on gigbit 
> with 300 byte packets or smaller, the driver does not allow any 
> processes to run, and you cannot log in via ssh or any user space 
> apps.  This is severely busted.   

That's one of the points of NAPI - to process high traffic Rx rates outside
of h/w interrupt context.

-scott
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