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author | Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> | 2009-03-05 11:02:26 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-03-10 15:29:49 +0300 |
commit | 4145ade2bb265b34331265bfa2221e40b069b3ca (patch) | |
tree | 5f1cf1c04fe11d083a362d614747c28134d08e82 /Documentation | |
parent | b67874ac1604cda8070d60d432e892c09d761b2e (diff) | |
download | linux-4145ade2bb265b34331265bfa2221e40b069b3ca.tar.xz |
forcedeth: add interrupt moderation logic
This patch adds the logic to moderate the interrupts by changing the
mode between throughput and poll. If there has been a large amount of
time without any burst of network load, the code will transition to pure
throughput mode (where each tx/rx/other will cause an interrupt). If
bursts of network load occurs, it will transition to poll based mode to
help reduce cpu utilization (it will not interrupt on each packet) while
maintaining the optimum network bandwidth utilization.
Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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