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"David S. Miller" wrote:
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> NAPI is also not the panacea to all problems in the world.
> 

Mala did some testing on this a couple of weeks back.  It appears that
NAPI damaged performance significantly.

http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linuxperf/netperf/results/july_02/netperf2.5.25results.htm
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