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Re: Software router state of the art


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:29:56 +0200

* William Herrin:

The pro/1000 does not need to generate an interrupt in order to start
a DMA transfer? Can you refer me to some documents which explain in
detail how a card on the bus sets up a DMA transfer?

Busmaster DMA does not generate an interrupt on the host CPU.  The
interrupt is used to trigger processing on the host CPU; it can be
deferred until several frames have been written.


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