[PATCH 2/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch.

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat Sep 30 20:30:59 EST 2006


Am Saturday 30 September 2006 01:17 schrieb Linas Vepstas:
> Implement basic low-watermark support for the transmit queue.
> Hardware low-watermarks allow a properly configured kernel
> to continously stream data to a device and not have to handle
> any interrupts at all in doing so. Correct zero-interrupt
> operation can be actually observed for this driver, when the
> socket buffer is made large enough.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>



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