On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:26:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > -r8169_napi-help-text.patch > > This broke >... Below is a patch against -mm5. Please apply Adrian Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> --- linux-2.6.7-mm5-full/drivers/net/Kconfig.old 2004-07-01 23:24:49.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.7-mm5-full/drivers/net/Kconfig 2004-07-01 23:25:38.000000000 +0200 @@ -2009,7 +2009,18 @@ config R8169_NAPI bool "Use Rx and Tx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on R8169 && EXPERIMENTAL + 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 SK98LIN tristate "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support" - : 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
