From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: RFC: Removing busy-spin in pktgen. Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:02:52 -0700 Message-ID: <453D582C.9020705@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Olsson Return-path: Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:22760 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932348AbWJXAE2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:04:28 -0400 To: NetDev Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I'm planning to re-merge my long-lost pktgen branch with the kernel tree's pktgen. I believe the main difference is that my out-of-tree pktgen does not do the busy-spin, but waits on a queue for the net-device to wake it's tx-queue when over-driving a NIC. To implement this, I added a hook in the netdev-wake-queue logic and let pktgen register itself as interested.... Is there any interest in adding this sort of feature to the official pktgen? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com