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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:23 -0700 From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> To: hadi@...erus.ca Cc: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, krkumar2@...ibm.com, johnpol@....mipt.ru, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, kaber@...sh.net, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, jagana@...ibm.com, Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se, rick.jones2@...com, xma@...ibm.com, gaagaan@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, rdreier@...co.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, mcarlson@...adcom.com, mchan@...adcom.com, general@...ts.openfabrics.org, kumarkr@...ux.ibm.com, tgraf@...g.ch, randy.dunlap@...cle.com, sri@...ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCHES] TX batching jamal wrote: > On Sun, 2007-23-09 at 12:36 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: > >> please be reminded that we're going to strip down e1000 and most of the features >> should go into e1000e, which has much less hardware workarounds. I'm still >> reluctant to putting in new stuff in e1000 - I really want to chop it down first ;) > > sure - the question then is, will you take those changes if i use > e1000e? theres a few cleanups that have nothing to do with batching; > take a look at the modified e1000 on the git tree. that's bad to begin with :) - please send those separately so I can fasttrack them into e1000e and e1000 where applicable. But yes, I'm very inclined to merge more features into e1000e than e1000. I intend to put multiqueue support into e1000e, as *all* of the hardware that it will support has multiple queues. Putting in any other performance feature like tx batching would absolutely be interesting. Auke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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