From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tulip: hardware mitigation simplify Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:43:06 -0500 Message-ID: <47B06D0A.9040007@pobox.com> References: <20071213093554.5c4909ed@freepuppy.rosehill> <47B06AE3.4020809@DunveganMedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kristjan To: Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:39974 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752256AbYBKPnN (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:43:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47B06AE3.4020809@DunveganMedia.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jeff Garzik wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> The hardware mitigation in tulip can be simpified. >> 1. The budget with new NAPI will always be less than RX_RING_SIZE >> because RX_RING_SIZE is 128 and weight is 16. >> 2. The received counter is redundunt, just use the work_done value. >> 3. Only one value is used from the mit_table[] >> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger grrr. Mozilla Thunderbird is annoying. Please help me out, and --don't-- reply to jgarzik@dunveganmedia.com. T-bird's multi-profile stuff is fouling me up. Sorry :( Jeff