netdev - Re: [PATCHES] TX batching

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:52:58 -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>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] TX batching

jamal wrote:
> 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.

hmm, I though I already removed that, but now I see some remnants from that.

By all means, please send a separate patch for that!

Auke
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