From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
jklewis@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:29:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060816.152919.88472383.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608170016.47072.arnd@arndb.de>
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:16:46 +0200
> Am Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:32 schrieb David Miller:
> > Can spidernet be told these kinds of parameters? =A0"N packets or
> > X usecs"?
> =
> It can not do exactly this but probably we can get close to it by
Oh, you can only control TX packet counts using bits in the TX ring
entries :(
Tigon3 can even be told to use different interrupt mitigation
parameters when the cpu is actively servicing an interrupt for
the chip.
Didn't you say spidernet's facilities were sophisticated? :)
This Tigon3 stuff is like 5+ year old technology.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-16 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-11 17:03 [PATCH 0/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet driver fixes Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 17:06 ` [PATCH 1/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet burst alignment patch Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-18 19:23 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-18 21:25 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 22:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-18 22:51 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 23:29 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-18 23:45 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-19 4:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-22 0:13 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-22 0:30 ` David Miller
2006-08-19 4:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-11 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet stop error printing patch Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 4/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 18:00 ` Olof Johansson
2006-08-11 18:50 ` James K Lewis
2006-08-11 19:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-15 19:05 ` Olof Johansson
2006-08-16 0:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-08-11 17:42 ` [PATCH 0/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet driver fixes jschopp
2006-08-11 17:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-11 19:31 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 20:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 16:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-16 20:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 20:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-16 20:46 ` David Miller
2006-08-16 21:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 21:32 ` David Miller
2006-08-16 22:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 22:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-08-16 22:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 23:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:32 ` David Miller
2006-08-17 0:23 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:24 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 22:55 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 23:47 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:08 ` Rick Jones
2006-08-16 21:58 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking Linas Vepstas
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