Networking: Still waiting for mbuf cluster.

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Tue Sep 25 23:52:35 UTC 2007


Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> 
> Okay, so much seems clear to me. It's just that an ping -f works fine,
> therefore I would expect the driver to correctly transmit and receive
> packets. It also creates a hell lot of interrupts - there is a lot of
> room for improvements of the xiltemac driver.

The continuous stream of packets and therefore interrupts can be keeping the 
driver working. I have seen cases like this on other hardware and it tended to 
be the way the interrupt acknowledge sequence worked.

Regards
Chris



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