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ixgbe: move tx processing into NAPI context
authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:00:27 +0000 (16:00 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:20:21 +0000 (05:20 -0700)
commit91281fd36c7670904e0b315e273e896d907adc36
tree61a1912e6cd560c39bd300565f13aa16c9ae8b89tree | snapshot
parentfe49f04aa8c0f74c363cbb1e9852a0d7769b5a99commit | diff
ixgbe: move tx processing into NAPI context

This patch moves the tx cleanup processing out of the MSI-X interrupt
processing and gives it it's own napi routine.  This allows the driver to
process TX cleanup in a polling context instead of in an interrupt context
which prevents TX from starving RX.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c diff | blob | blame | history
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