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

From: [email-masked] (Linas Vepstas)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:51:03 -0500

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:44:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

When turning off interrupts, don't turn them *all* off.
Leave the queue-full interrupt always on.

--linas