Hi Masa, Thanks for the support.
Yes, it's all about MSI-X. -Evan Masa Murayama wrote: > Hi, > > +1 > > by the way, is it related with supporting MSI-X ? > > -masa > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:03:06 +0800 >> From: Evan Yan <evan....@sun.com> >> To: driver-discuss@opensolaris.org >> Subject: [driver-discuss] Project proposal: Interrupt Resource Management >> >> >> I'd like to get sponsorship from the Device Drivers community to host a >> project for the development of Interrupt Resource Management (IRM) for >> OpenSolaris. The sponsorship is also requested in ON community. We think >> IRM should be endorsed with both of Device Drivers and ON communities. >> >> The implementation of Sparc part has already been integrated in Nevada. >> The remain work includes the x86 part implementation and working with >> device drivers to utilize this feature. >> >> Attached is the proposal, please review. >> >> Thanks, >> -Evan >> >> ----- inline ----- >> Synopsis >> >> Interrupt Resource Management (IRM) >> >> Sponsoring Community >> >> Device Drivers >> OS/NET (ON) >> >> Initial team members >> >> evan....@sun.com (preferred point of contact) >> scott.car...@sun.com >> govinda.ta...@sun.com >> >> Description >> >> IRM provides a mechanism for device drivers to get more interrupt >> vectors (and increased performance). By participating with the new >> feature, their number of available interrupts becomes dynamic and >> can increase or decrease. The goal is to maximize utilization of >> interrupt vectors in a fair manner, and rebalance the allocations >> whenever devices are added or removed from the system. >> >> Related Projects >> >> It needs some effort in the device driver side to utilize the >> feature IRM provides. Currently IRM project team and some device >> driver team are working together to improve the drivers with IRM >> feature. >> >> ----- inline ----- >> _______________________________________________ >> driver-discuss mailing list >> driver-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
