[PATCH] Fix Tsi108 ethernet driver performance
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Jul 14 06:32:32 EST 2007
Scott Wood wrote:
> Wouldn't this cause latencies of up to a second in responding to
> received packets? I'd think that would be considered excessive.
>
> And shouldn't NAPI be reducing the RX interrupt load anyway?
Sorry, I missed that you reduced the interval to 20 ms. Still, a bit on
the high side, and a source of wasted CPU cycles when the network isn't
heavily loaded. How much of a difference in CPU usage did you see with
this patch?
-Scott
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