Re: [PATCH 2/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch.

From: Linas Vepstas
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 19:27:25 EST


On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:51:16PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> I see you moving TX reclaim into tasklets and stuff. I've vehemently
> against that because you wouldn't need it in order to move TX
> processing into software interrupts if you did it all in NAPI
> ->poll().

I don't understand what you are saying. If I call the transmit
queue cleanup code from the poll() routine, nothing hapens,
because the kernel does not call the poll() routine often
enough. I've stated this several times.

--linas
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