Re: sendto syscall is slow

Francois Romieu (romieu@cogenit.fr)
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:02:33 +0200


Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz> :
[...]
> Are you speaking about rewriting nic driver ? Like try to drain
> waiting packet from nic's memory while enqueuing new one ?

Partly: simply disabling Rx/Tx interrupt and checking for ack
in buffers descriptor during hard_start_xmit. The profile for
loopback shows your problem is not here however. :o(

-- 
Ueimor
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