Re: [PATCH] VIOC: New Network Device Driver

2006-09-11 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 11 September 2006 19:58, Misha Tomushev wrote: > The descriptor clean-up does not contribute anything to the performance > of the driver, it just replenishes the memory pools. It almost does not > need interrupts. Why would we want to add more cycles to the receive > logic, when driver is

RE: [PATCH] VIOC: New Network Device Driver

2006-09-11 Thread Misha Tomushev
-Original Message- From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 2:39 PM To: Misha Tomushev Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] VIOC: New Network Device Driver Am Friday 15 September 2006 02

Re: [PATCH] VIOC: New Network Device Driver

2006-09-10 Thread Francois Romieu
Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > A few comments on coding style: Add: - use netdev_priv() - use DMA_{32/64}_BIT_MASK in place of private #define - turn some define into enum ? -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: [PATCH] VIOC: New Network Device Driver

2006-09-10 Thread Arnd Bergmann
Am Friday 15 September 2006 02:15 schrieb Misha Tomushev: > VIOC Device Driver provides a standard device interface to the internal > fabric interconnected network used on servers designed and built by > Fabric 7 Systems. > > The patch can be found at ftp.fabric7.com/VIOC. We recently had a discus

Re: [PATCH] VIOC: New Network Device Driver

2006-09-10 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Thu, 2006-09-14 17:15:21 -0700, Misha Tomushev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VIOC Device Driver provides a standard device interface to the internal > fabric interconnected network used on servers designed and built by > Fabric 7 Systems. > > The patch can be found at ftp.fabric7.com/VIOC. To g