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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:10:17 -0400
To: "Filip Sneppe (Yucom)" <filip.sneppe@yucom.be>
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Subject: Re: how to improve the throughput of linux network
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at  6:59PM +0200, Filip Sneppe (Yucom) wrote:
> Hey, that's funny. I downloaded NAPI patches from:
> ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/

Yes, that's where the NAPI stuff originates. The core patch from that
site is what made it into 2.5, and I backported it to 2.4 from there.
There are no substantial differences between the three.

> How different are those patches from yours ? Did you just make
> sure they all applied cleanly ?

While the core is mostly a matter of changing patch offsets, the driver
patches are still a moving target. There are two different flavors of
the e1000 NAPI patch, for example. The most recent tulip patch from the
above FTP site is missing tulip_misc.c, so it must be replaced with a
version from another patch.  That file really is only code to report
stats in /proc, though. There's yet another napified tulip driver that
jamal posted a link to; I have yet to investigate that one.

But to answer your question, yes. I just found the most recent versions
of various napi efforts and made them apply to a recent 2.4 kernel so
people can easily try out the new net core.

Jason
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