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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> | 2006-07-31 20:37:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2006-08-08 23:47:59 -0400 |
| commit | e27cdba53b8ad5c12c9281b3737e07f2a536c3a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ca5866a80e3b553b0956220a7a49e10345f33fa /drivers/net/Kconfig | |
| parent | 5070d3408405ae1941f259acac7a9882045c3be4 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e27cdba53b8ad5c12c9281b3737e07f2a536c3a2.tar.gz lwn-e27cdba53b8ad5c12c9281b3737e07f2a536c3a2.zip | |
[PATCH] forcdeth: revised NAPI support
Revised version of the forcedeth NAPI support.
This version is based against netdev-2.6#upstream
(after the MAC patches from Ayaz today).
Can't use nv_disable_hw_interrupts because NAPI only wants to
mask off receive irq's and leave the others alone.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index 3a0d80b28503..ecfbd1c2408c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -1411,6 +1411,22 @@ config FORCEDETH <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be called forcedeth. +config FORCEDETH_NAPI + bool "Use Rx and Tx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on FORCEDETH && EXPERIMENTAL + help + NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load + when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is + still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. + + If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be + deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), + then say Y here. + + See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more + information. + + If in doubt, say N. config CS89x0 tristate "CS89x0 support" |