On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 11:51 -0700, Bing Zhao wrote: > From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > In most cases, host that receives IPv4 and IPv6 multicast/broadcast > packets does not do anything with these packets. Therefore the > reception of these unwanted packets causes unnecessary processing > and power consumption. > > Packet coalesce feature helps to reduce number of received > interrupts to host by buffering these packets in firmware/hardware > for some predefined time. Received interrupt will be generated when > one of the following events occur. > a) Expiration of hardware timer whose expiration time is set to > maximum coalescing delay of matching coalesce rule. > b) Coalescing buffer in hardware reaches it's limit. > c) Packet doesn't match any of the configured coalesce rules. > > This patch adds set/get configuration support for packet coalesce. > User needs to configure following parameters for creating a coalesce > rule. > a) Maximum coalescing delay > b) List of packet patterns which needs to be matched > c) Condition for coalescence. pattern 'match' or 'no match' > Multiple such rules can be created. > > This feature needs to be advertised during driver initialization. > Drivers are supposed to do required firmware/hardware settings based > on user configuration. Applied. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
