On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:46 -0700, Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 04:41:32PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just replaced the obsoleted if_watchdog interface in ndis(4) with a > > local implementation. This should remove the obnoxious warning message > > on device init. Anyone using -CURRENT with an ndis card, could you send > > me success/fails? > > > > The patch is here: > > * http://people.freebsd.org/~cokane/patches/if_ndis-new_wd.patch > > > This works different to the rest of the network drivers. The existing > drivers use a callout tick that runs while the driver is up and an > integer counter. > > if (x && --x == 0) > ...timeout... > > You arm the callout and stop it after each Tx, does this have any > perfornace impact? > > > Andrew You are probably right, I'll look into what I can do to re-work it here... I just ran through to perform a naive if_watchdog-->callout_* conversion on this really quickly. Using it, I don't see much of a performance impact. However, I am not using this on a server and CPUFREQ >> NETFREQ for me. -- Coleman Kane
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