netdev - Re: [next-next-2.6 PATCH] enic: Add support to configure hardware interrupt coalesce timers in a platform independent way

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:25:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vkolluri@...co.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [next-next-2.6 PATCH] enic: Add support to configure hardware
 interrupt coalesce timers in a platform independent way

From: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri@...co.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:56:48 -0700

> From: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri@...co.com>
> 
> enic driver and the underlying hardware use different units for representing the interrupt coalesce timer.
> Driver converts the interrupt coalesce timer in usec to hardware cycles while setting the relevant hardware
> registers. The conversion factor can be different for each of the adapter hardware types. So it is dynamically
> learnt from the adapter firmware using the devcmd CMD_INTR_COAL_CONVERT. This allows the driver to configure
> the hardware interrupt coalesce timers in a platform independent way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Danny Guo <dannguo@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Wang <dwang2@...co.com>

Applied.
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