Linas Vepstas wrote:
Please apply and forward upstream. This patch requires the previous
sequence of 4 spidernet patches to be applied.
--linas
The recent set of low-waterark patches for the spider result in a
significant amount of computing being done in an interrupt context.
This patch moves this to a "bottom half" aka work queue, so that
the code runs in a normal kernel context. Curiously, this seems to
result in a performance boost of about 5% for large packets.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>
Cc: Utz Bacher <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Osterkamp <[email protected]>
Let's not reinvented NAPI, shall we...
Jeff
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