From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] sky2: add fake idle irq timer
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:45:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060425154503.30516935@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060425223900.GB18035@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:39:00 +0200
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> :
> [...]
> > > Any objection against moving mod_timer() from sky2_poll() to sky2_idle()
> > > so as to keep poll() path unmodified ?
> > >
> >
> > If traffic is moving, then I want the timer to keep getting rescheduled
> > farther out.
>
> If my version of the driver is not stale, the timer will not be
> rescheduled when work_done >= work_limit.
I am trying to work around possible lost IRQ's, not netdev scheduler
screw up's. If workdone >= work_limit, then it will already be
called back later when it return's 1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-25 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-25 17:58 [PATCH 0/5] sky2: version 1.2 Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 17:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] sky2: reschedule if irq still pending Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-26 10:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-25 17:58 ` [PATCH 2/5] sky2: add fake idle irq timer Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 21:23 ` Francois Romieu
2006-04-25 21:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 22:39 ` Francois Romieu
2006-04-25 22:45 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-04-25 17:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] sky2: use ALIGN() macro Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 17:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] sky2: reset function can be devinit Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 17:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] sky2: version 1.2 Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-29 18:15 ` [PATCH 0/5] " Bertrand Jacquin
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