[PATCH 1/2 net-next] net: fec: add napi support to improve proformance

Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P peter.p.waskiewicz.jr at intel.com
Thu Jan 24 01:39:18 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:26:00AM +0800, Frank Li wrote:
> > A NAPI driver must call netif_receive_skb(), especially if
> > the RX path does a full copy of the frame : Its hot in cpu cache and
> > should be processed at once.
> 
> How about napi_gro_receive? is it correct function? I found many driver use it.

If you want to coalesce your Rx frames to reduce overhead, then yes.  It's
a good performance improvement overall.

-PJ



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