On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:27:38 +0200 Florian Fainelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > This patch adds a new LED trigger, based on network activity. It gathers > activity from net/core/dev.c and can be used as a LED trigger by > specifying "network-activity". Further version should allow the user to > specify the network interface to bind a LED to. This trigger is a "simple" > trigger as defined by the LED subsystem. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- You are slowing down the network receive path even if LED is not used. Doing mod_timer() is expensive, on a busy system you would be adding another lock roundtrip and list operation for each incoming packet. - 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
