On Mon, 2007-03-09 at 20:20 -0700, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote: > I didn't see much saving in interrupts on my machine (too fast, I guess).
You could try the idea suggested by Dave earlier and just turn interupts for every nth packet. That should cut down the numbers. > I did see a significant boost to tx performance by optimizing start_xmit: more > than double pps in pktgen. 148Kpps on a slow piece of hardware aint bad - Good Stuff. I wonder how much CPU is being abused. If you wanna go one extra mile (separate future patch): get rid of that tx lock and use netif_tx_lock on the interupt path. Look at some sane driver like tg3 for reference. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
