On Sunday 07 August 2005 03:54, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Saturday 06 August 2005 18:40, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 04:52:07 +1000 > > > > > So then there is no choice but to throttle the per-cpu ->input_pkt > > > queues. > > > > Make the driver support NAPI if you want device fairness. > > This will co-exist happily with NAPI. It does not simply replicate NAPI > functionality because the reserve accounting also tells the receive path > when it should discriminate in favor of vm traffic.
I forgot to mention, I rewrote the patch completely because of the stupid interrupt context mistake, and it no longer touches netif_rx. Please see "take two". Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
