From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 4 0:25:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9A937B40B; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f847Nem76568; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200109040723.f847Nem76568@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: general ethernet driver changes In-Reply-To: <3B948040.29033A09@mindspring.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 4, 2001 0:18:25 am" To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Did you have opportunity to play with the soft interrupt > coalescing we discussed? Did this message just leak to a mailing list, or would you be able to expand this (or pass a pointer to mailing lists where this was discussed) ? thanks luigi > I was able to remove a third of the interrupt overhead > from the Tigon III driver, using the approach we discussed > at the user group meeting two months back. > > It looks to be a serious win... and it appears to be > applicable to almost every driver you've written (it's > about a 12 line change per driver). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message