Re: [PATCH 05/15] habanalabs/gaudi: add NIC Ethernet support

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Sep 14 2020 - 12:49:45 EST


On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:52:00 +0000 Omer Shpigelman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:03 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:11:16 +0300 Oded Gabbay wrote:
> > > +module_param(nic_rx_poll, int, 0444);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(nic_rx_poll,
> > > + "Enable NIC Rx polling mode (0 = no, 1 = yes, default no)");
> >
> > If your chip does not support IRQ coalescing you can configure polling and the
> > timeout via ethtool -C, rather than a module parameter.
>
> I couldn't find an example for that in other drivers and I didn't see
> anything regarding polling mode in the parameters description of this
> ethtool callback.
> Can you please specify some pointer for that? Or in other words, what
> parameter can we use to enable polling/setting the timeout?

Look at stmmac, hip04_eth..