On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:11:33AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Blaschka <frank.blaschka@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:37:22 +0100 > > > Since the qeth driver can not use NAPI I would like to hear > > your opinion about following approach to exploit GRO. > > Can you remind us why it can't use NAPI? > > I personally find it hard to believe... :-) Sure, let me try ... on s/390 we neither have have a PCI bus nor a DMA transfer. We have a common software component called qdio which does a DMA like data transfer to/from the hardware. The inbound interface between qeth and qdio is a tasklet running under the control of qdio. So the qeth driver can not disable qdio IRQs (I guess this is a major reason why not using NAPI) and poll the data. qdio is also used for other s/390 non network drivers (e.g. fcp) so changing this component is rather difficult and out of qeth scope. The qdio framework already provides a bottomhalf so todays approach to call netif_rx seems to be questionable anyway ... > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
