Re: e1000 fixes (NAPI)

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 12:13:03 EST


Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

>
> One other comment. Does NAPI handle the issue of refilling the RX ring
> from interrupt? This is the source of the problem, not packet
> delvery, which
> is handled from a softirq handler.

NAPI poll does not happen in an interrupt. Doing things in interrupts
is the source of problems that NAPI is trying to solve.

Other than that, please read the code and NAPI paper... :)

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