Your register read will take at least 1msec. That is the time between
scheduling the transfer and the interrupt being triggered for
completion. 

But typically it will take 2msecs.

Nick

> > Because this is not an asynchronous task that I'm trying to do here.
> > I'm talking about reading and writing registers from the ethernet 
> > controller. If this was a PCI device, I'd be using 
> > bus_space_read_X()/bus_space_write_X() to read the registers directly. I 
> > don't want to start reading a register and then come back a while later 
> > to read the results. The code isn't meant to work like that.
> 
> Unfortunately, given that your 'register read request' is being queued 
> over what is basically a packet-switched network, you're going to have to 
> change the way the code works so that it _can_ work like that.  If you 
> don't like it now, imagine how much less you're going to like, say, I2O 
> or SystemIO...
> 
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