[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

Heiko J Schick info at schihei.de
Tue May 9 11:57:01 PDT 2006


On 09.05.2006, at 18:49, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>> The trivial way to do it would be to use the same idea as the current
>> ehca driver: just create a thread for receive CQ events and a thread
>> for send CQ events, and defer CQ polling into those two threads.
>
> For RX, isn't this basically what NAPI is doing?
> Only NAPI seems better, avoiding interrupts completely and avoiding  
> latency hit
> by only getting triggered on high load ...

Does NAPI schedules CQ callbacks to different CPUs or stays the callback
(handling of data, etc.) on the same CPU where the interrupt came in?

Regards,
	Heiko



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