On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 18:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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I've started looking at playing with the NAPI code again, and trying to
see if I can add an ENAPI interface (Even Newer API), where the driver
uses its own interrupt thread, and instead of having the polling in the
network softirq, it can do the polling in its own thread.

It's pretty close to the behaviour I enforced with this change. Let's
play with that and figure out what influence it has on the network
throughput performance on RT. That needs probably a different
scheduling scheme than what Carsten needs for his deterministic
behaviour.

I was actually looking at the change for mainline, not for -rt ;-)

-- Steve