Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 12:48:09 EST


Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The trivial way to do it would be to use the same idea as the current
> ehca driver: just create a thread for receive CQ events and a thread
> for send CQ events, and defer CQ polling into those two threads.

For RX, isn't this basically what NAPI is doing?
Only NAPI seems better, avoiding interrupts completely and avoiding latency hit
by only getting triggered on high load ...

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