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To: Noah Romer <klevin@eskimo.com>
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Subject: Re: New net features for added performance
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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>
Date: 04 Mar 2001 00:32:25 +0100
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>>>>> "Noah" == Noah Romer <klevin@eskimo.com> writes:

Noah> In my experience, Tx interrupt mitigation is of little
Noah> benefit. I actually saw a performance increase of ~20% when I
Noah> turned off Tx interrupt mitigation in my driver (could have been
Noah> poor implementation on my part).

You need to define performance increase here. TX interrupt coalescing
can still be a win in the systems load department.

Jes
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