Re: [Fwd: [E1000] NAPI re-insertion w/ changes]
From: Robert Olsson <hidden>
Date: 2003-03-28 18:43:22
From: Robert Olsson <hidden>
Date: 2003-03-28 18:43:22
Jason Lunz writes: > Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se said: > > Can you test the patch I sent for 5.0.43 with your equipment/setup? > > We have a winner! I called the driver with your patch 5.0.43-k1-ro1. I > also removed all the cyclesoak lines; all they really show is that > throughput is really sensitive to how much CPU time ksoftirqd gets. > > http://gtf.org/lunz/linux/net/perf/ is still the url. Excellent! We have a flat performance curve at ~350 kpps at any load and packet size again. Of course this can be improved further. I think Intel still did the hard work but left the "fine" tuning and testing for us. :-) I guess we propose the patch to maintainers. Cheers --ro