From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [net-next.git 4/7] stmmac: add Rx watchdog optimization to mitigate the DMA irqs Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:14:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1346861675.5325.13.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <1346857432-24657-1-git-send-email-peppe.cavallaro@st.com> <1346857432-24657-5-git-send-email-peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , To: Giuseppe CAVALLARO Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:62099 "EHLO ocex02.SolarFlarecom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752001Ab2IEQOi (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:14:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1346857432-24657-5-git-send-email-peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 17:03 +0200, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote: > GMAC devices newer than databook 3.50 has an embedded timer > that can be used for mitigating the number of interrupts. > So this patch adds this optimizations. > Old MAC will continue to use NAPI. [...] Interrupt moderation is *not* a substitute for NAPI; you should continue using NAPI as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.