Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH 1/5] netdev: bfin_mac: Blackfin EMAC interrupt may not be shared

[Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 18:45, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 18:18, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
>>>> the difference is that one of these is required in order for anything
>>>> to get done and the other is always useless noise.  also, the Blackfin
>>>> core does do speculative data fetching on external memory, but not
>>>> MMRs, so the stalling due to the data cache line fills will be
>>>> mitigated unlike the useless MMR reads.
>>>
>>> You only need to read the register if the descriptor status is not
>>> ready yet, and you're just spinning in that case anyways.
>>>
>>> I doubt it makes any real difference if implemented properly.
>>>
>>> But I guess it's more fun to speculate than to actually try it out.
>>> :-/
>>
>> and i guess it's more fun to waste time attempting to support an
>> operating mode that the hardware has never and most likely will never
>> support
>
> I guess I'll apply your patch :-)

thanks ... i thought you might force me to implement it anyways even
though i really really dont want it ;)
-mike