Re: e1000 softirq load balancing

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From: <Madhukar.Mythri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:31:44 +0800

> It differs for each driver. Generally, for intel drivers, the driver
> version says whether its NAPI-mode or not.  We can know this by
> command "modinfo e1000 |grep NAPI" .  Or else, 'ethtool -i
> <interface name>' (where interface-name, should be intel-device
> interface-name like: eth0 or eth1..).
>
> Where as for Broadcom, the driver version, doesn't say, whether its
> NAPI-mode or not. I don’t' know how to identify this for Broadcom?

NAPI is unconditionally on, always, for all Broadcom drivers.

In fact we want all drivers to unconditionally use NAPI
and not allow this to be configurable.  It's a very
inconsistent user experience, make for more code to
validate, more situations to test, and more bugs.
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