Pyun YongHyeon wrote this message on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:27 +0900: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:24:23PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Jason THorpe did one for NetBSD. > > > > I did one for Solaris. Nice chip. Too bad it wasn't more popular. > > I'm satisfied with the performance and easy interface for the chip. > But the lack of Tx interrupt moderation and extra accesses to a > status register to check which kind of Tx errors were occurred are > serious fault. Since the the error condition uses the same status > bit in interrupt status register it's hard to distingush failures > from sucess without extra register accesses. bah, tx interrupts are so last century... there isn't any reason to have them... just schedule a timeout or wakeup a thread when the number of tx descriptors are low.. and if you ran out, you could even do the minimal work to free them up right in place... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Mon Jul 10 2006 - 01:08:01 UTC
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