> What Eugene does currently, which seems to me like it's actually the > only proper solution, is to create a separate net_device structure for > the DMA engine and thus have a single NAPI poll & weighting for all the > EMACs sharing a given MAL (MAL is the name of that DMA engine). This > means that Rx from any of the channels schedules the poll, and > interrupts can be properly masked/unmasked globally based on the > presence/absence of work on all the channels.
Actually, another solution would be to have one of the instances do the NAPI poll for all of them instead of creating a separate net_device for the DMA engine... Ben. - 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
