[vortex] 3c905C for a linux router

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Donald Becker wrote:

> Just to make this clear:
>  It's only an hour or two of writing to add the NAPI code.

I don't have this hour or two ATM :-)

>  It's a week or two of testing to see if the code works as designed
>     with the different network adapters and work loads

Well, the driver distributed with the kernel has different ISRs, so my 
choice is easy: just NAPI-fy boomerang_interrupt; somebody else with the 
hardware can do vortex_interrupt. I have here Cyclone and Tornado based 
NICs, I only miss Boomerang to test...

>  It's about a 1.5 years to decide if the NAPI structure is the right one.

Yeah, but I'm certainly not the one to make this decision. Most if not all 
of the development that I've done was motivated by the need for 
higher/stable performance on our clusters :-) So if NAPI brings something 
positive here, I'll just use it; submitting it for inclusion in the kernel 
is only a side-effect :-)

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Bogdan Costescu

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