But wouldn't we take a large performance hit using FromDevice instead of PollDevice? Thanks! David
On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Joonwoo Park wrote: > Hi David, > > As patchess linux doesn't support PollDevice for now, you cannot use > it with patchless linux. > So you don't need to patch e1000e driver either and have to use > FromDevice instead. > > Here is a similar post that I did yesterday. > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04824.html > > Regards, > Joonwoo. > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:36 PM, David Zats <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> We would like to leverage the multiple transmit/receive queues that our >> Intel 82571EB NIC provides and to use it in polling mode. From what we can >> tell, the 2.6.24.7 Linux kernel does not support multiple queues. At the >> same time, if we use a newer kernel in pathless mode, the latest patched >> driver (e1000e-0.4.1.7) won't compile. Would it be possible to find out the >> combination of kernel and driver version to use to obtain both benefits? >> Thanks! >> David Zats >> _______________________________________________ >> click mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click >> _______________________________________________ click mailing list [email protected] https://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/click
