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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:38:25 -0400
From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] TX batching
On Mon, 2007-24-09 at 00:00 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> that's bad to begin with :) - please send those separately so I can fasttrack them
> into e1000e and e1000 where applicable.
Ive been CCing you ;-> Most of the changes are readability and
reusability with the batching.
> 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.
I looked at the e1000e and it is very close to e1000 so i should be able
to move the changes easily. Most importantly, can i kill LLTX?
For tx batching, we have to wait to see how Dave wants to move forward;
i will have the patches but it is not something you need to push until
we see where that is going.
cheers,
jamal
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