Re: [PATCH 5/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half

2006-08-23 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:03:04AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > using the NAPI poll function Still fiddling with this. Getting side-tracked after noticing that the RX side generates a *huge* numbe of interrupts, despite code in the driver which superficially appears to be RX NAPI. One step forw

Re: [PATCH 5/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half

2006-08-18 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 19 August 2006 00:26, Linas Vepstas wrote: > The recent set of low-waterark patches for the spider result in a > significant amount of computing being done in an interrupt context. > This patch moves this to a "bottom half" aka work queue, so that > the code runs in a normal kernel cont

[PATCH 5/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half

2006-08-18 Thread Linas Vepstas
The recent set of low-waterark patches for the spider result in a significant amount of computing being done in an interrupt context. This patch moves this to a "bottom half" aka work queue, so that the code runs in a normal kernel context. Curiously, this seems to result in a performance boost o