From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:44:28 +0200
> Well, the hybrid scheme could lead to RX starvation (if some fool > succeed to transmit at full Gigabit speed), tg3_tx() could loop > forever, never returning to tg3_poll(). We only should capture the producer/consumer indexes once. That was implied in my description, sorry for not stating it explicitly. > About the first idea, maybe we should defer the handling of the list > of skb to be DMA unmapped *after* the tg3_rx(), in order to reduce > the possibility of discarded incoming frames... I don't think that will help much. Eric, BTW, would it kill you to line wrap your emails to 80 columns or something like that? I'm constantly formatting all the quoted text in my replies. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
