Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/ipoib: NAPI > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/26/2006 09:59:30 PM: > > I still hope ehca NAPI performance can be fixed. But if not, maybe we should > > have the low level driver set a disable_napi flag rather than have users > > play > > with module options. > > I forgot to mention these NAPI parameters should be tunable for different > device drivers, like dev->weight, or set up in lower driver.
So we need something like poll_weight in struct ib_device, to give a hint on how expensive an interrupt is versus poll? Seems to make sense, and actually might be useful for other ULPs. Roland, what do you think? -- MST _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
