Re: [PATCH 9/11] lpfc 8.1.1 : Add polled-mode support

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:02:44PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:10:37PM -0500, James.Smart@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > This needs some documentation for where it is useful.  Do you 
> > > want this
> > > to avoid interrupts under high loads or for something else? 
> > 
> > Yes - we've been asked to support this mode so that a heavily loaded
> > system can claim back some cpu cycles spent on interrupt processing.
> > (SPC benchmarks being a prime example)
> 
> sounds like we need to implement SAPI ;-)
> 
> [ for those with no clue what i'm talking about, see
> Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt ]

Exactly what I was thinking when writing this previous mail.

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