[PATCH] staging: octeon-ethernet: drop multiple NAPI instances

2014-11-07 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Octeon Ethernet driver is currently trying to wake up multiple CPU cores for parallel NAPI processing when needed, to cope with the fact that all network interfaces are handled through the same receive queue processed by a single core/interrupt (see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=13720978491456

Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon-ethernet: drop multiple NAPI instances

2014-11-07 Thread David Daney
On 11/07/2014 12:44 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: Octeon Ethernet driver is currently trying to wake up multiple CPU cores for parallel NAPI processing when needed, to cope with the fact that all network interfaces are handled through the same receive queue processed by a single core/interrupt (see ht

Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon-ethernet: drop multiple NAPI instances

2014-11-07 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 01:17:23PM -0800, David Daney wrote: > On 11/07/2014 12:44 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > >Octeon Ethernet driver is currently trying to wake up multiple > >CPU cores for parallel NAPI processing when needed, to cope > >with the fact that all network interfaces are handled

Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon-ethernet: drop multiple NAPI instances

2014-11-07 Thread David Daney
On 11/07/2014 02:32 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: Hi, On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 01:17:23PM -0800, David Daney wrote: On 11/07/2014 12:44 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: Octeon Ethernet driver is currently trying to wake up multiple CPU cores for parallel NAPI processing when needed, to cope with the fact th