From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 16:32:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C0016A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:32:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB7943D58 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:32:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IE400B7HGMVF0@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:32:56 +0200 (MEST) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:32:55 +0200 (MEST) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92])j2TGWsBg021996; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:32:54 +0200 (MEST) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))(Postfix) with ESMTP id 021B628450; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:32:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0AF2C2285A; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:32:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:32:46 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <4b42090824704fe104ed6be2304f3b15@rice.edu> To: Paul Willmann Message-id: <20050329163246.GF87756@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=9sSKoi6Rw660DLir; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <4b42090824704fe104ed6be2304f3b15@rice.edu> cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plan to remove GIANT dependence in ixgb driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:32:57 -0000 --9sSKoi6Rw660DLir Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:49:04AM -0600, Paul Willmann wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I'm new to the list, but before I go ahead and modify the ixgb (intel=20 > 10 Gb NIC) driver to have its own mutex, I want to just send out an=20 > announcement to avoid any duplication of effort by anyone else who=20 > might be doing the same. The drivers in CURRENT and STABLE both=20 > require giant. I have a pair of NICs and multiprocessor machines to=20 > test this on. Please send me an email if you've got a concern about=20 > this or have already started work... >=20 Great, finally someone with ixgb hardware :-) Would you be interested in testing out some patches? (altq support and per-interface polling) Also, Maxime Henrion committed a busdma change to HEAD a couple of days ago, I'm sure he would appreciate some feedback. To answer your question, I don't think anyone is working on removing GIANT from this driver at the moment. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --9sSKoi6Rw660DLir Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCSYMubHYXjKDtmC0RAjHaAJ4/ELTZv0HSvWeIc7onsdZW6R7zeQCeL3t8 6jWmmLFi34CTzJY30xsndeA= =qUx3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9sSKoi6Rw660DLir--