Re: e1000 performance issue in 4 simultaneous links
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-01-11 01:28:36
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-01-11 01:28:36
From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <redacted> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:52:15 -0800
I hope this explanation makes sense, but what it comes down to is that combining hardware round robin balancing with NAPI is a BAD IDEA.
Absolutely agreed on all counts. No IRQ balancing should be done at all for networking device interrupts, with zero exceptions. It destroys performance.