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 myself.

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

2001-10-07 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-current/[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

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

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Jonathan Lemon wrote: In article local.mail.freebsd-current/[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.

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

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

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 III

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 diff, not