From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
aabdulla@nvidia.com, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: forcedeth: option to disable 100Hz timer (try 2)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:19:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080910221947.94409642.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C89D9F.5080404@shaw.ca>
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:25:03 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Enabling by
> default and disabling after a TX done interrupt was received would
> likely be a better approach
yup, that's far better.
> But it's quite likely that at least some of the
> chipsets that this driver supports don't need this timer nonsense at all
Well yes. If all the chipsets need the timer then there's nothing we
can do to improve it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 5:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.iCGOiwuSYhYKpu85Kihny1t9YbA@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.4uZtuq0waBlpfBb/4OLq4bM5Pj8@ifi.uio.no>
2008-09-11 0:18 ` forcedeth: option to disable 100Hz timer (try 2) Robert Hancock
2008-09-11 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-11 4:19 ` Mikhail Kshevetskiy
2008-09-11 4:25 ` Robert Hancock
2008-09-11 5:19 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-09-11 5:31 ` Mikhail Kshevetskiy
2008-09-11 19:14 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <baho5-34g-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-09-10 11:16 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-09-09 19:34 Mikhail Kshevetskiy
2008-09-10 23:31 ` Andrew Morton
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