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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:28:35 -0700 From: prodyut hazarika <prodyuth@...il.com> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> Cc: Prodyut Hazarika <phazarika@...c.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Feng Kan <fkan@...c.com>, Loc Ho <lho@...c.com>, Victor Gallardo <vgallardo@...c.com>, bhutchings@...arflare.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, davem@...emloft.net, jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, lada.podivin@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ibm_newemac: Add Support for MAL Interrupt Coalescing Hi Ben, > > BTW. If you guys are ever going to do another change to MAL, please > please plase, add the -one- major missing feature that's causing all the > pain and complication in the current design: Add a per-channel interrupt > masking option. > > The lack of ability to mask the interrupt per MAL channel is what forces > us to create that fake netdev structure in order to share the napi > device instance between all the EMACs in the system. This is very > inefficient too. We would be able to make things run a lot smoother if > we could just have a napi instance per EMAC, but for that, we need > per-channel interrupt masking. > I will add a patch for the above as soon as I am done incorporating your comments on the MAL coalescing support. Thanks Prodyut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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