Subject: Re: RFC: NAPI packet weighting patch

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:35:46 -0700

> Everyone seems to have this absolute fetish about batching the RX
> descriptor refilling work.  It's wrong, it should be done when you
> pull a receive packet off the ring, for many reasons.  Off the top of
> my head:
> 
> 1) Descriptors are refilled as soon as possible, decreasing
>    the chance of the device hitting the end of the RX ring
>    and thus unable to receive a packet.

IFF one pokes the NIC for each buffer right?

rick jones