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NAPI Polling in Kernel Threads

• drewg123 6y ago
  Sounds very much like what FreeBSD (and Solaris) does with its ithreads, except that ithreads are for most interrupts, and not just network interrupts.
• amerine 6y ago
  > With these patches applied, the kernel can optionally (under administrator control) create a separate kernel thread for each NAPI-enabled network interface. After that, NAPI polling will be done in the context of that thread, rather than in a software interrupt. Nice enhancement. Can’t wait to play with it.