Re: [PATCH 5/6] net: calxedaxgmac: rework transmit ring handling

Ben Hutchings
2012-10-12T16:28:57Z

On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 10:15 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
>
> Only generate tx interrupts on every ring size / 4 descriptors. Move the
> netif_stop_queue call to the end of the xmit function rather than
> checking at the beginning.
[...]

The hardware should also interrupt if the TX ring becomes empty; does it
do that?

Ben.

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