From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965075AbWJBQ2E (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:28:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965083AbWJBQ2D (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:28:03 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:26011 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965078AbWJBQ1w (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:27:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:27:49 -0500 To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, jeff@garzik.org, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, James K Lewis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet patches Message-ID: <20061002162749.GB4546@austin.ibm.com> References: <20060929230552.GG6433@austin.ibm.com> <200609301240.03464.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200609301240.03464.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:40:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Am Saturday 30 September 2006 01:05 schrieb Linas Vepstas: > > > > Although these patches improve things, I am not > > satisfied with how this driver behaves, and so > > plan to do additional work next week. > > > > I'm not sure if I have missed a patch in here, but I > don't see anything reintroducing the 'netif_stop_queue' > that is missing from the transmit path. > > Do you have a extra patch for that? Unfinished. There are several ways in which the current spider-net driver doesn't do things the way Greg KH's, etal book on device drivers recommends. I was planning on combing through these this week. --linas