netdev - Re: [PATCHES] TX batching

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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>
Cc:	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

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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