* Sam Fourman Jr.  [2007-09-07 04:44]:

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> I guess on this Subject I need educated because I am not all together

> sure what interrupt mitigation is and why I want it.

traditionally, and interrupt cards intterupts once per packet it has

received (or successfully sent, but let us ignore the tx path for now).

interrupt mitigation, coalescing, *insert name-of-the-day for int

mitgation here* etc all describe teh same thing, a certain heuristic to

not interrupt once per packet, but once for a bunch. this is usually

achieved by a combination of amount of packets (i. e. "interrupt every

25 packets") or bytes and a timer (to make sure there is no packet

sitting in the rx queue for too long).
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