David S. Miller wrote:
> Any driver should be able to get the NAPI overhead to max out at
> 2 PIOs per packet.
Just to pick nits... my example went from 2 or 3 IOs [depending on the
presence/absence of a work loop] to 6 IOs.
I mean "2 extra PIOs" not "2 total PIOs".
I think it's doable for just about every driver, even tg3 with it's
weird semaphore scheme takes 2 extra PIOs worst case with NAPI.
The semaphore I have to ACK anyways at hw IRQ time anyways, and since
I keep a software copy of the IRQ masking register, mask and unmask
are each one PIO.
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