Hi Dave! Please find the attached patch to add NAPI support to the sungem.c driver (I was annoyed by the fact the pktgen could kill my Powerbook). Since this is my first hack of a network driver with
Please find the attached patch to add NAPI support to the sungem.c driver (I was annoyed by the fact the pktgen could kill my Powerbook). Since this is my first hack of a network driver within at lea
Harald.... check current BK it has NAPI support added to the sungem.c driver already, it was written by Eric Lemoine with some fixes by myself and benh :-) I guess these are one of the old mails you'
Hi Jeff, thanks for your comments. I'm not sure whether I need mb() or wmb() ? Or even better: Can anybody direct me to a document describing the primitives in more detail than the linux include file
Gnah, I hate duplicated efforts. Well, I learned a bit about NIC drivers, though :( No, unfortunately not :( Before I start NAPI-enabling natsemi.c (and again duplicate work): Do you know of anybody
No, it's something else. If you do something like, as one example: /* Chip resets require 40msec settle delay. */ writel(FOO_RESET, regs + FOO); udelay(40); It's not going to work properly because th
Your patch has the netpoll bits while current BK does not. I'm not ;-) PS: If you happened to experiment with the NAPIfied SunGEM driver on your setup, could you please share the data. Thx. -- Eric