Hi Eric,

Eric Dumazet wrote:
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> Just curious.
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> Blocking hard IRQ while doing TX completion is quite nasty,
> as freeing one hundred of skb take long.
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> Could you try something in process context instead ?

I am planning some changes for handling TX completions, but I think it is too
late to
add them to 2.6.30.
In the code that will be submitted to 2.6.31 we will not block irqs.

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> Is this timer driven tx completion thing really good for performance ?
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When we are CPU bounded on the transmit side, the driver shown better
performance with
the timer driven completions rather then with interrupts.
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