From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
shemminger@vyatta.com, tom.leiming@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: future developments of usbnet
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 12:01:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105141201.40265.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1105121025360.1917-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011, 16:37:28 schrieb Alan Stern:
> Therefore usbnet's poll routine should take the "weight" argument as an
> indication of how many outstanding rx URBs are allowed. Each time the
> poll routine is called, it should check to see if any rx URBs have
> completed since the previous poll. If not then there is no network
> traffic, so usbnet can take itself out of the poll loop. Otherwise,
> the number of outstanding URBs should be adjusted (by unlinking some or
> submitting more -- subject to some fixed maximum limit) to match the
> new "weight".
>
> Does that make sense?
What does happen if we reach the weight 0 ?
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-14 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-06 18:45 future developments of usbnet Oliver Neukum
[not found] ` <201105062045.37336.oliver-GvhC2dPhHPQdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-09 3:26 ` Ming Lei
2011-05-09 8:42 ` Oliver Neukum
[not found] ` <201105091042.01014.oliver-GvhC2dPhHPQdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-09 15:22 ` Ming Lei
2011-05-09 15:31 ` Alan Stern
2011-05-09 15:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-11 17:37 ` Oliver Neukum
[not found] ` <201105111937.47448.oliver-GvhC2dPhHPQdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-11 17:47 ` David Miller
2011-05-12 7:59 ` Oliver Neukum
[not found] ` <201105120959.28473.oliver-GvhC2dPhHPQdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-12 14:37 ` Alan Stern
2011-05-14 10:01 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
[not found] ` <201105141201.40265.oliver-GvhC2dPhHPQdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2011-05-14 10:46 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-12 17:46 ` David Miller
2011-05-10 9:42 ` Richard Cochran
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