Re: RFC: new ifnet MP-scalable sending interface

[Kengo NAKAHARA <k-nakahara%iij.ad.jp@localhost>]

Hi,

On 2016/04/25 23:17, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 01:48:40PM +0900, Kengo NAKAHARA wrote:
>>> Most noticably, it can be used to avoid
>>> ever getting TXEOF interrupts while the device is actively being used.
>>
>> Hmm, do you mean so-called "poll-mode"?
> 
> No, poll mode would be mostly for the RX side. This is more about
> pushing packets to the hardware as soon as possible, not waiting for the
> next interrupt to queue more stuff.

I see. Thank you for your more comments. if_transmit() would allow
drivers to do such way. That is up to drivers.


Does anyone have any comments or objections? If there is no objection,
I will commit this patch after a few days or a few weeks.
    http://www.netbsd.org/~knakahara/if-transmit/if-transmit.patch
    # rebased, no functional changes


Thanks,

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Kengo NAKAHARA <k-nakahara%iij.ad.jp@localhost>