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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>
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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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