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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
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=46rom: 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"?
>=20
> 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.