On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:55:01AM +0500, kernel coder wrote: > I did lmbench benchmarks tests... and the results i got were pretty > weird.. I am attaching the jpegs :) of the graphs i made in MS Excel. We're happy with cold, raw ASCII numbers :) > Btw, I have implemented NAPI in both 2.4.20 and 2.6.10. I ported the > code to linux-2.6 in order to increase the board's efficiency but I'm > quite dissapointed with the results so far :(. NAPI is doing it's job which is keeping a system responsive under extreme loads very well. The pre-NAPI behaviour was simply locking up thus making systems easily DOS-able. NAPI is not meant to improve latency; it isn't meant but frequently mistaken to. Ralf
