netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 05/14] can: m_can: Implement transmit coalescing

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Message-ID: <20231001122334.GM92317@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 14:23:34 +0200
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Markus Schneider-Pargmann <msp@...libre.com>
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
	Chandrasekar Ramakrishnan <rcsekar@...sung.com>,
	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
	Vincent MAILHOL <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	linux-can@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Julien Panis <jpanis@...libre.com>,
	Judith Mendez <jm@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/14] can: m_can: Implement transmit coalescing

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:12:55PM +0200, Markus Schneider-Pargmann wrote:
> Extend the coalescing implementation for transmits.
> 
> In normal mode the chip raises an interrupt for every finished transmit.
> This implementation switches to coalescing mode as soon as an interrupt
> handled a transmit. For coalescing the watermark level interrupt is used
> to interrupt exactly after x frames were sent. It switches back into
> normal mode once there was an interrupt with no finished transmit and
> the timer being inactive.
> 
> The timer is shared with receive coalescing. The time for receive and
> transmit coalescing timers have to be the same for that to work. The
> benefit is to have only a single running timer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Schneider-Pargmann <msp@...libre.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>