On Thursday 08 August 2002 18:48, you wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Robert Davies wrote:
> > Even with DMA, the card generally has to generate an Interrupt to say a
> > packet needs servicing. There are cards which permit polling rather than
> > interrupts, and a driver was under development to use that feature. If
> > you're interested a search of Kernel Traffic or the LWN kernel pages,
> > might show up an explanation how a non-interrupt driven driver would
> > work.
>
> That would be almost stupid for high performance networking ;-)
With superb timing, LWN has a reference to Interrupt loads and high
performance networking, look for NAPI, apparently Marcello almost put it in
2.4.20, and here's a year old explanation of it, with some links.
http://old.lwn.net/2001/1004/kernel.php3
Rob
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