From: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aabdulla@nvidia.com,
jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: forcedeth: option to disable 100Hz timer (try 2)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:31:09 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080911093109.2cc34135@laska> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080910221947.94409642.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:19:47 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 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.
How it will work, if network cable unpluged? This is quite often situation
for laptop with wifi?
>
> > 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 5:38 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
2008-09-11 5:31 ` Mikhail Kshevetskiy [this message]
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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