Re: What do people think about adaptive polling?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hasso Tepper wrote: 
> Note that NAPI isn't just adaptive polling algorithm, but also splitting
> interrupt work into to parts (hardware interrupt handler and softirq). This
> might be big contributor to the win from using both in the same time as
> well. 

I think that's the equivalent of fast and slow interrupts in bsd.  we basically (with some exceptions, like serial io) do all the work in the slow interrupt handler (= interrupt thread).

cheers
 simon

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