Re: Question about tg3 and bnx2 driver suppliers
From: Micha Nelissen <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-20 18:26:40
Eric Dumazet wrote:
One possible cause of packet drops is when softirqs are disabled for too long periods, even if NIC has a big RX ring (check ethtool -g eth0)
Why aren't the softirqs converted to workqueues? Wouldn't that cut dependencies to other softirq users and improve latency? Probably a stupid question, thanks. Micha