Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:05:04 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: Paul Willmann <willmann@rice.edu> Subject: Re: Plan to remove GIANT dependence in ixgb driver Message-ID: <20050329170504.GH25563@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20050329163246.GF87756@unixpages.org> References: <4b42090824704fe104ed6be2304f3b15@rice.edu> <20050329163246.GF87756@unixpages.org>
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Christian Brueffer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:49:04AM -0600, Paul Willmann wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm new to the list, but before I go ahead and modify the ixgb (intel > > 10 Gb NIC) driver to have its own mutex, I want to just send out an > > announcement to avoid any duplication of effort by anyone else who > > might be doing the same. The drivers in CURRENT and STABLE both > > require giant. I have a pair of NICs and multiprocessor machines to > > test this on. Please send me an email if you've got a concern about > > this or have already started work... > > > > 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. Yeah, actually Paul already tested my changes and thanks to him I'll MFC them to RELENG_5 if re@ gives me his approval. Cheers, Maxime
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