Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:03:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:03:30 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:3333 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:03:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3D07D270.5060902@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:00:00 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/00200205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhang Fuxin CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, saw@saw.sw.com.sg, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: NAPI for eepro100 In-Reply-To: <3D0740ED.2060907@ict.ac.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zhang Fuxin wrote: > hi,all > Recently i've converted eepro100 driver to use napi,in order to improve > network performance of my poor 150M mips machine. It does eliminate > the interrupt live lock seen before,maintaining a peak throughput under > heavy load. > In case anybody are interested,i post the patches to the list. They are > 3 incremental patchs: > eepro100-napi.patch is against 2.5.20 eepro100.c and provide basic > napi support Nifty, I'll take a look at this. > eepro100-proc.patch is proc file system support adapted from intel's > e100 driver. I am using it for debugging. > eepro100-mips.patch is mips specific patch to make it work(well) for > my mips > platform. Just FWIW I'm not gonna apply these... for the 'proc' patch, that either needs to be moved to ethtool, or we should make a filesystem for net drivers that exports procfs-like inodes. for the 'mips' patch, it looks like the arch maintainer(s) need to fix the PCI DMA support... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/