Re: [E1000-devel] driver can only use one descriptor to transmit packet

2012-08-02 Thread Qiao Xiang
Sorry, what I meant ICR.RS is actually ICR.TXDW. I kind of mixed the concept since written back is allowed when setting the RS bit in TDESC.CMD. Best Qiao Xiang On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Qiao Xiang wrote: > Hi All, > > I am testing my e1000 driver for 82540em model on a new os. When I wr

[E1000-devel] driver can only use one descriptor to transmit packet

2012-08-02 Thread Qiao Xiang
Hi All, I am testing my e1000 driver for 82540em model on a new os. When I wrote the tail of the tx_ring to the transmission descriptor tail TDT(3818h), the NIC card should start to transmit packets between TDH(3810h) and TDT. The situation I have is as follows, 1. When I wrote 1 to TDT (TDH is 0