Subject: Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:44:36 -0700 (PDT)

From: David Stevens <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:50:58 -0700

>         Problem is if it increases rapidly, you may drop packets
> before you notice that the ring is full in the current estimated
> interval.

This is one of many reasons why hardware interrupt mitigation
is really needed for this.