Thanks! I'll check it out. I;ve already done very heavy modifications
to the e1000 for my testing.
Jeff
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:39:31PM +0100, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Have you tried the NAPI patch and the NAPI'fied e1000 driver?
> I'm not sure how far the development has come but I know it improves
> performance quite a bit versus the regular e1000 driver.
>
> You'll find it here:
> ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/
>
> kernel/napi-patch-ank is the NAPI patch, you need to change
> the get_fast_time() call to do_gettimeofday() for it to compile.
>
> e1000/ is the NAPI'fied e1000 driver, the latest release is from Jan 29
> but there is a document that describes how you checkout the latest version
> via cvs.
>
> I've never tried the e1000 NAPI driver since I don't have one of these
> boards but I use the tulip NAPI driver a lot here and it works great,
> impressive performance.
>
> I hope you get better performance.
>
> /Martin
>
> Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
>
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