Subject: Re: Network driver receive path
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Maen Suleiman <maen.suleiman@gmail.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/14/2007 20:02:56
Yes we have a HW support for interrupts mitigation that we are using ,
I think the problem is with ammount of time that we spend in the
interrupt and not how many interrupts/second ( we get almost the same
interrupts/second in send and receive cases )
Thanks in advance
On 3/14/07, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:46:42PM +0200, Maen Suleiman wrote:
> > It is based on NetBSD ARM port. and the giga port is part of the ARM
> > SoC and not a PCI device, our hardware is not part of the official
> > NetBSD yet, I hope this answers the question
>
> Well, the reason for the question is whether it is an architecture were
> direct-mapped physical memory is available or not.
>
> The other question is whether your device has interrupt mitigation support
> and it is used as interrupts in general are expensive.
>
> Joerg
>