Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20060816.152919.88472383.davem@davemloft.net>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, akpm@osdl.org, jeff@garzik.org,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, jklewis@us.ibm.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: 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? ?"N packets or
> > X usecs"?
> 
> 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.
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