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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:04:12 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
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Subject: Re: Gigabit Performance 2.4.19-preX - Excessive locks, calls, waits
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0203041830020.12740-100000@tux.rsn.bth.se>; from gandalf@wlug.westbo.se on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:39:31PM +0100
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Thanks!  I'll check it out.  I;ve already done very heavy modifications
to the e1000 for my testing.

Jeff

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:39:31PM +0100, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Have you tried the NAPI patch and the NAPI'fied e1000 driver?
> I'm not sure how far the development has come but I know it improves
> performance quite a bit versus the regular e1000 driver.
> 
> You'll find it here:
> ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/
> 
> kernel/napi-patch-ank is the NAPI patch, you need to change
> the get_fast_time() call to do_gettimeofday() for it to compile.
> 
> e1000/ is the NAPI'fied e1000 driver, the latest release is from Jan 29
> but there is a document that describes how you checkout the latest version
> via cvs.
> 
> I've never tried the e1000 NAPI driver since I don't have one of these
> boards but I use the tulip NAPI driver a lot here and it works great,
> impressive performance.
> 
> I hope you get better performance.
> 
> /Martin
> 
> Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
> 
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