From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 2 22:44:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05B816A418 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:44:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7116813C45D for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:44:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so3044095nfb for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:44:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=3WtKhqbiRvS0SjdkpF3/o3BtGotLcuG5Uls2TInnkzs=; b=GvLyRXxaUSZDlPESLjeM6jIBPBbBcyk8u0QHr53OwdnJ3Ww47uQ3ckugFhM6nQjmbpzsywxmk/OrdMwyaCfV9jWBIUUIQqYW+d4aqDQm1f6ekS+4dxi0DesYPciWZOs5mzeNY1PXbkQgYLUiN0P+7GPRc9NArqNCzeGYat+rOaE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GbgqkO+d2pr1Sijk2OTn+5BUSie32ZocIWlBC6PZnhmFb0HsScUU5B1PbRA2qyj6wD2/cOBVxQsvW7ad09nBjyuhklZX2/WeXkEC25cZrnCah/dvgt9OB2/6YqU+yQWbQHLbEEzQsgSi9pBwBRypKtVtDq3dVAjer1X+IiFlHSQ= Received: by 10.86.74.15 with SMTP id w15mr393918fga.1191365073042; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.100.19 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a41acea0710021544i694031f9u6ab2ccd157094b3c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:44:32 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Vladimir Ivanov" In-Reply-To: <4702C021.8050304@yandex-team.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46B07931.3080300@yandex-team.ru> <2a41acea0708010923m7b21095ajc2ee84c37e0d5354@mail.gmail.com> <470280F6.9070009@yandex-team.ru> <2a41acea0710021358h1940addct3f2b0d3824d04ea3@mail.gmail.com> <4702C021.8050304@yandex-team.ru> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: SMPable version of EM driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 02 Oct 2007 22:44:35 -0000 On 10/2/07, Vladimir Ivanov 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