On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:10PM +1100, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > But unfortunately it doesn't help a lot. I see a lot of packet > drops/errors/overruns at the network card level (ifconfig reports so). That's how NAPI works. In the face of too much load, the kernel reverts to polling the interface and just handling as many packets as it has time for. The rest show up as the errors you're seeing, because the card is forced to drop frames the kernel can't handle. You should have much more CPU time available for the rest of the system with the NAPI driver than without. Jason - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
