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Re: [PATCH 1/5] iwlwifi: Simplify tx queue management

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On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 14:17 -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> > I'm pretty sure the devices (but maybe not 3945) implement interrupt
> > mitigation at least in some cases. How did you arrive at the conclusion
> > that "the driver doesn't actually do any interrupt mitigation"?
> 
> Two reasons:
>   -- I searched the code and couldn't find any evidence for it
>   -- If I'm wrong then the quickest way to find out is to make loud
> and confident claims in front of people who know better ;-)
> I might be wrong.

Well, I think you are -- at least for some cases. The driver doesn't
need to do anything to implement mitigation, if anything the ucode will
do this by itself -- I imagine it'll do this especially for aggregation
queues (which I realise aren't relevant in this patch, but still).

johannes

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