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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:42:44 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5
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jamal wrote:

> No. NAPI is for any type of network activities not just for routers or
> sniffers. It works just fine with servers. What do you see in there that
> will make it not work with servers?

Will NAPI patch, as it sits today, fix all IRQ lockup problems for
all drivers (as Ingo's patch claims to do), or will it just fix
drivers (eepro, tulip) that have been integrated with it?

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