Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Clearly this would also be very applicable to non-Gigabit cards, > >but the only one we use is the FXP, and the FXP driver is very > >poorly structured for being able to do this type of thing (I > > Oh, bah. The fxp clearly h

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-07 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Clearly this would also be very applicable to non-Gigabit cards, >but the only one we use is the FXP, and the FXP driver is very >poorly structured for being able to do this type of thing (I Oh, bah. The fxp clearly has the equivalent of fxp_rxeof and fx

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > > Certainly not with this lousy patch with no context! > > To be clear: I was complaining about the non-context diff, not the diff > itself. We cant safely use it like this unless you give us an exact time/ > date of the corresponding freebsd version. OK. It was against Fre

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > > This is based on ideas in the Jeff Mogul (DEC Western Research > > Labs) paper from 1995: > > These look like a subset of what Garrett was working on in 1996: Guess Jeff Mogul beat him to it; I wish Garrett's code had been committed, so I wouldn't have had to reinvent it my

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-06 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm wrote: > > http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/abstracts/95.8.html > > http://ftp.digital.com/%7emogul/usenix96.ps > > > > Kris: Commit this... K PLZ THX. > > Certainly not with this lousy patch with no context! To be clear: I was complaining about the non-context di

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:40:57 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Here are patches to three of the Gigabit ethernet drivers to > implement soft interrupt coelescing. I have included patches > for the dc, ti, and vr drivers... the ti driver is by far the > cleanest. > > I don't use Bill Paul's Tigon

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-06 Thread Peter Wemm
Terry Lambert wrote: > This is based on ideas in the Jeff Mogul (DEC Western Research > Labs) paper from 1995: These look like a subset of what Garrett was working on in 1996: (sys/i386/isa/if_ed.c) revision 1.95.2.1 date: 1996/04/01 18:59:25; author: wollman; state: Exp; lines: +378 -22 Th

KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Here are patches to three of the Gigabit ethernet drivers to implement soft interrupt coelescing. I have included patches for the dc, ti, and vr drivers... the ti driver is by far the cleanest. I don't use Bill Paul's Tigon III driver, so I haven't included patche for it (the patches should be o