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

From: Linas Vepstas
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 19:43:21 EST


On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:29:42PM -0500, linas wrote:
>
> 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.

OK, Arnd gave me a clue stick. I need to call the (misnamed)
netif_rx_schedule() from the tx interrupt in order to get
this to work. That makes sense, and its easy, I'll send the
revised patch.. well, not tonight, but shortly.

--linas
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/