From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:30:28 -0500
> Why would you want o do this? It seems like a cruddier strategy > than what we can already do (which is to never get an transmit > interrupt, as long as the kernel can shove data into the device fast > enough to keep the queue from going empty.) The whole *point* of a > low-watermark interrupt is to never have to actually get the interrupt, > if the rest of the system is on its toes and is supplying data fast > enough. As long as TX packets get freed within a certain latency boundary, this kind of scheme should be fine. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
