Yinghai Lu wrote:
On 10/7/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The 'fe-lock' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git fe-lock
OK, I've successfully tested patches 1-5 on an AMD64 system with
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK80
On 10/7/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > The 'fe-lock' branch of
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git fe-lock
> OK, I've successfully tested patches 1-5 on an AMD64 system with
>
> 00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethern
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The 'fe-lock' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git fe-lock
contains the following changes that I would like to get tested:
[netdrvr] forcedeth: make NAPI unconditional
[netdrvr] forcedeth: interrupt handling cleanup
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* I feel TX NAPI is a useful tool, because it provides an independent TX
process control point and system load feedback point.
Thus I felt this was slightly superior to tasklets.
/me agrees violently
btw., when i played with thi
* Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * I feel TX NAPI is a useful tool, because it provides an independent TX
> process control point and system load feedback point.
> Thus I felt this was slightly superior to tasklets.
/me agrees violently
btw., when i played with this tunable under
Jeff Garzik wrote:
The goals of these changes are:
* move the driver towards a more sane, simple, easy to verify locking
setup -- irq handler would often acquire/release the lock twice
for each interrupt -- and hopefully
s/and hopefully// (it became the next bullet point)
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On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:12:50AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> The 'fe-lock' branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git fe-lock
It should also be pointed out that these patches were generated on top
of davem's net-2.6.24.git tree.
They -probably- apply to
The 'fe-lock' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git fe-lock
contains the following changes that I would like to get tested:
[netdrvr] forcedeth: make NAPI unconditional
[netdrvr] forcedeth: interrupt handling cleanup
[netdrvr] forcedeth:
