From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 08:49:07 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 F25D516A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:49:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from handler7.mail.rice.edu (handler7.mail.rice.edu [128.42.58.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AA143D41 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:49:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmann@rice.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by handler7.mail.rice.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 760521DB0A for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:49:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by handler7.mail.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DCB11DB09 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:49:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from handler7.mail.rice.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (handler7.mail.rice.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23171-03 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:49:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from [10.249.249.247] (dunwlessnat.rice.edu [128.42.64.251]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by handler7.mail.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E621DB03 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:49:04 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <4b42090824704fe104ed6be2304f3b15@rice.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: Paul Willmann Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:49:04 -0600 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavis-20030616-p6 at mail.rice.edu X-DCC--Metrics: handler7.mail.rice.edu 1067; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Subject: 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 08:49:07 -0000 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... Thanks, --Paul Willmann