On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 22:56 +0100, John Crispin wrote:
>  > So the ATM driver would have to go out of its way to screw you over¹. 
> John?
> 
> the lantiq atm/dsl drivers use a dma ring to push packets from the atm 
> layer to the dsl modem core. this ring needs to be 2 packets big as a 
> minimum to have the hardware work. however, using software we can make 
> sure that only 1 packet at a tim eis inside the ring. this is what my 
> current dirty hack does.

You shouldn't need that hack any more. With the current core ATM code
you should only have two packets in the queue anyway — the one the
hardware is *currently* working on, and the next one ready to be sent
(which is necessary to avoid introducing too much latency between
packets. Your ADSL uplink is *very* limited, and you really want to be
sure you're using it *all*).

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dwmw2