Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:32:46 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Paul Willmann <willmann@rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plan to remove GIANT dependence in ixgb driver Message-ID: <20050329163246.GF87756@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <4b42090824704fe104ed6be2304f3b15@rice.edu> References: <4b42090824704fe104ed6be2304f3b15@rice.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. To answer your question, I don't think anyone is working on removing GIANT from this driver at the moment. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCSYMubHYXjKDtmC0RAjHaAJ4/ELTZv0HSvWeIc7onsdZW6R7zeQCeL3t8 6jWmmLFi34CTzJY30xsndeA= =qUx3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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