Hi

Also, as far as the approach of using tasklets, I think it would be
better to use the "fake netdev" approach to continue to use NAPI.
Basically you create a pseudo-netdev for each receive queue and have
NAPI handle the polling for you -- you could look for
drivers/net/cxgb3 for an example of this.

Thanks for pointing us to this solution. We are now building a NAPI version
that makes use of these pseudo-netdev. The fairness amongst other netdevices
should be better this way.

Why make this a module option that the user has to set?  Are there any
circumstances when someone wouldn't want "significant performance
improvements?"  If this approach is just better, then it should just
replace the old code.

We'll change the default behaviour to multi queue, but we'd like to keep
the option to run in a single queue mode for debug and backward compabilty.

Thanks,

Jan-Bernd & Christoph R.