Subject: Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:36:04 -0700

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> NAPI is also not the panacea to all problems in the world.
> 

Mala did some testing on this a couple of weeks back.  It appears that
NAPI damaged performance significantly.

http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linuxperf/netperf/results/july_02/netperf2.5.25results.htm