> > [Ram] I am assuming that this is with regards to msi-x interrupts.
We
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> Yes.
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> And avoiding bouncing locks for device state between CPUs.
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> > have done away with handling tx completion in the interrupt handler,
and
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> > are instead handling them in the context of the transmit. The slow
path,
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> > straggling transmit completions will be handled in the timer
context.
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> Ok -- hopefully you don't have bad corner cases from this when the
pipe
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> Old NAPI sometimes suffered from such problems.
[Ram] We have hit the driver pretty hard during testing and have not
encountered any problems either on the network or host.

Ram
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> -Andi
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