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From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: NIC with polling support
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:35:19 +0100, Florian Weimer <Weimer@cert.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I guess I'm severe need of a 100BaseTX NIC with polling support in the
> driver.
> 
> A special application requires processing of 40,000 packets/second or
> more, and the interrupt load currently kills the machine (i.e. no
> scheduling during peak load).
> 
> Any suggestions which card I should use?  The driver has to be open
> source, and the card shouldn't be too expensive (i.e. in the usual
> price range of brand 100BaseTX NICs).

As far as I can tell, no driver in 2.4 supports NAPI (aka polling support)
with the exception of the tg3 driver -- but that's a GigE card.

The Adapter DuraLAN/Starfire driver (which I maintain) has been modified to
support NAPI, but those changes have not yet been included in the official
kernel. I can mail you the patch, if you want to give it a try. The cards
are on the expensive side, but not overly so (about $100/port).

Ion

-- 
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            than to open it and remove all doubt.
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