Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 09:22:10PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:04:56PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >    From: Wayne Whitney <[e-mail]>
> >    Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:05:10 -0800
> >    
> >    So does anyone have any comments on the stability and performance of
> >    these cards/drivers?
> > 
> > As I said in a previous email the natsemi chips don't perform
> > too well.
> 
> That's my fault.  The version of the driver in the kernel atm sucks in 
> performance; I'll try to spend the day needed on the driver this week 
> and it should get up to ~800mbit from the current mess.  Getting NAPI 
> in the kernel would help... ;-)
> 

What is happening with NAPI anyway?