> Wrong. All GigE cards I have checked so far have interrupt mitigation. At
init
> you program them to delay IRQ until that many packets are in the queue or
a
> timer expires and the timer value. The only problem is that these are
usually
> not passed as module params. So you have to recompile if you find your
current
> mitigation params bad.
AFAICR, quite a few modern Fast Ethernet NICs also support this too.
One example of this is the 3com 3c905 Boomerang/Cyclone chipset. Donald
Beckers' driver seems to allow a maximum of 20 or 40 units of work to be
done under one interrupt.
Dan
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