[ofa-general] [PATCH 10/11]: IB/ipoib modify cq params

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Sep 25 09:55:19 PDT 2007


 > I think we have to carefully think if/how does this feature goes hand
 > in hand with NAPI. Since NAPI is not optional, with this feature the
 > network stack tries to do its best to reduce interrupts with the NAPI
 > logic, and on top of that the HW is instructed to apply this logic
 > before issuing an interrupt.

Actually if you read the history of NAPI on netdev, you will see that
it is highly recommended to use interrupt mitigation in conjuction
with NAPI.  So the idea here is good; I just have some questions about
some of the details.

 - R.



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