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==History of NAPI==

NAPI was an over three year effort by Alexey Kuznetsov, Jamal Hadi Salim and Robert Olsson.

Initial effort to include NAPI was met with resistance by some members of the community, however

Uppsala university was the first production NAPI based OS and is still powered to this day by

David Miller worked hard to ensure NAPI's inclusion.

NAPI based Bifrost/Linux routers. The classical NAPI paper and early work on NAPI can be found

A lot of real world testing was done in the Uppsala university network before inclusion. Infact,

Uppsala universitywww.slu.se was the first production NAPI based OS and is still powered to this day by

NAPI based Bifrost/Linux routers. The pktgen traffic generator was also born around this time.

Pktgen was extensively used to test NAPI scenarios not induced by real world traffic.

NAPI based Bifrost/Linux routers. The classical NAPI paper and early work on NAPI can be found

at: ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/

==External links==

* [ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/ Early NAPI work]

* [http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/NAPI NAPI description on LinuxNet wiki]

* [http://lwn.net/Articles/30107/ Driver porting: Network drivers]