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

==Further reading==

The classical NAPI paper and early work on NAPI can be found

*{{cite conference

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

| url = http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als01/full_papers/jamal/jamal.pdf

| title = Beyond softnet

| author = Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov

| date = 2001-11-10

| conference = 5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference (ALS '01)

| conferenceurl = http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als01/

| pages = 165–172

| accessdate = 2011-03-06

}} The classical NAPI paper.

*{{cite web

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

| author = Jonathan Corbet

| date = 2003-04-28

| work = [[LWN.net]]

| url = http://lwn.net/Articles/30107/

| accessdate = 2011-03-06

}}

*{{cite web

| title = Reworking NAPI

| author = Jonathan Corbet

| date = 2006-12-18

| work = [[LWN.net]]

* | url = [http://lwn.net/Articles/214457/ Reworking NAPI]

| accessdate = 2011-03-06

}}

*{{cite book

| author = Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman

| title = Linux Device Drivers

| url = http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

| chapter = Chapter 17: Networking drivers

* | chapterurl = [http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch17.pdf LDD3 : Chapter 17 : Networking drivers]

| month = February

| year = 2005

| edition = 3rd

| publisher = O'Reilly Media

| isbn = 978-0-596-00590-0

| accessdate = 2011-03-06

}}

==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]

* [http://lwn.net/Articles/214457/ Reworking NAPI]

* [http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch17.pdf LDD3 : Chapter 17 : Networking drivers]

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