Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:44:32 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Vladimir Ivanov" <wawa@yandex-team.ru> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SMPable version of EM driver Message-ID: <2a41acea0710021544i694031f9u6ab2ccd157094b3c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4702C021.8050304@yandex-team.ru> References: <46B07931.3080300@yandex-team.ru> <2a41acea0708010923m7b21095ajc2ee84c37e0d5354@mail.gmail.com> <470280F6.9070009@yandex-team.ru> <2a41acea0710021358h1940addct3f2b0d3824d04ea3@mail.gmail.com> <4702C021.8050304@yandex-team.ru>
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On 10/2/07, Vladimir Ivanov <wawa@yandex-team.ru> wrote: > Jack Vogel wrote: > > I'm sorry I have not been able to get to this yet, but putting > > food on the table comes first so the FreeBSD work that > > Intel pays me for has to come first. Also your driver work > > is based on a version that is too old to just accept, I am > > hoping to get the STABLE tree converted to the new > > shared code that CURRENT has shortly, so whatever good > > ideas you have, and I'm sure you have many, will need to > > be made into the new code base. Furthermore, that base > > is a moving target as I add new hardware support. > > > > In the near term I will be taking changes that I did for the > > 10G Oplin driver, specifically multiqueue/rss and the lock > > splitting that is in that driver, and putting them back into > > the Gig driver, but that should go into CURRENT first. > > > > My recomendation is to move your work to CURRENT. > > We have a little bit different points of view. Your business is code > development. Our business is to make several thousand FreeBSD boxes fast > and stable. That's why we've limited with OS release selection. But > another side of my coin is: we able to test software with a lot of > running systems. > > We plan to deal with CURRENT though. I can understand and appreciate that, and in fact, both our tasks are necessary for success. I will try harder to get to your code Vladimir. Jack
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