> n | name | min | avg | max | rx dropped | samples > 1 | no mod | 827K | 846K | 891K | 945 | 5 > 2 | no log | 711K | 726K | 744K | 562 | 5 > 3 | less irq | 815K | 833K | 846K | N/A | 5 > 4 | no irq | 914K | 924K | 931K | N/A | 5 > 5 | simple | 857K | 868K | 879K | 615 | 5 That is odd. Side question: What CONFIG_HZ= do you have? 100, 250, 1000? Try 1000. I've seen problems where the driver wants to sleep for a short time, but the CONFIG_HZ value limits how short a time it can actually sleep. It ends up sleeping much longer than it wants. Andrew