[PATCH v4 1/1] can: add pruss CAN driver.

[mkl@pengutronix.de (Marc Kleine-Budde)]

On 05/23/2011 08:21 AM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:

[...]

> In 'real world' CAN setups you'll never see 21.000 CAN frames per second (and
> therefore 21.000 irqs/s) - you are usually designing CAN network traffic with
> less than 60% busload. So interrupt rates somewhere below 1000 irqs/s can be
> assumed.
> 
> From what i've seen so far a 3-4 messages rx FIFO and NAPI support just make it.
> 
> @Marc/Wolfgang: Would this be also your recommendation for a CAN controller
> design that supports SocketCAN in the best way?

If you have a rx FIFO NAPI is the way to go. For a single mailbox it
adds overhead, if you can read the CAN frame in the interrupt handler.
The error messages should probably generated from NAPI, too. Especially
the I'm-the-only-CAN-node-on-the-net-and-get-no-ACK error message.

However IIRC David said that every new driver should implement NAPI.

> As the Linux network stack supports hardware timestamps too, this could be an
> additional (optional!) feature.

regards, Marc
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