RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

[David Miller]

From: James Chapman <jchapman at katalix.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:16:45 +0100

> Does hardware interrupt mitigation really interact well with NAPI?

It interacts quite excellently.

There was a long saga about this with tg3 and huge SGI numa
systems with large costs for interrupt processing, and the
fix was to do a minimal amount of interrupt mitigation and
this basically cleared up all the problems.

Someone should reference that thread _now_ before this discussion goes
too far and we repeat a lot of information and people like myself have
to stay up all night correcting the misinformation and
misunderstandings that are basically guarenteed for this topic :)