On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:00:32AM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote: > > I am assuming the real goal is avoiding interrupts when > > transmit completions can be reported without them on a > > reasonably periodic basis. > > Not necessarily on a periodic basis. For some network driver I once > worked on, the hardware simply had a ring buffer of n frames. > Whenever a n+1th frame was transmitted, the first would be checked for > completion. If it was completed, it was freed, else the new frame was > dropped (and freed).
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