[openib-general] Re: Re: [PATCH] IPoIB splitting CQ, increase both send/recv poll NUM_WC & interval

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Apr 25 08:23:12 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Shirley Ma <xma at us.ibm.com>:
> The more light weigh in hardware interrupts, the better.

But we don't know whether the ULP will be doing lightweigh things in completion
handler or not.

So it seems better to report completion events in IRQ context from low level
driver and leave the decision on whether to use tasklet, work queue or polling
like NAPI to the ULPs. No?

-- 
MST



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