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    [TG3]: Set minimal hw interrupt mitigation. · 15f9850d
    David S. Miller authored
    
    
    Even though we do software interrupt mitigation
    via NAPI, it still helps to have some minimal
    hw assisted mitigation.
    
    This helps, particularly, on systems where register
    I/O overhead is much greater than the CPU horsepower.
    
    For example, it helps on NUMA systems.  In such cases
    the PIO overhead to disable interrupts for NAPI accounts
    for the majority of the packet processing cost.  The
    CPU is fast enough such that only a single packet is
    processed by each NAPI poll call.
    
    Thanks to Michael Chan for reviewing this patch.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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