Re: Plan to remove GIANT dependence in ixgb driver

From: Christian Brueffer (chris_at_unixpages.org)
Date: 03/29/05

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    Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:32:46 +0200
To: Paul Willmann <willmann@rice.edu>

    On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:49:04AM -0600, Paul Willmann wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I'm new to the list, but before I go ahead and modify the ixgb (intel
    > 10 Gb NIC) driver to have its own mutex, I want to just send out an
    > announcement to avoid any duplication of effort by anyone else who
    > might be doing the same. The drivers in CURRENT and STABLE both
    > require giant. I have a pair of NICs and multiprocessor machines to
    > test this on. Please send me an email if you've got a concern about
    > this or have already started work...
    >

    Great, finally someone with ixgb hardware :-) Would you be interested
    in testing out some patches? (altq support and per-interface polling)
    Also, Maxime Henrion committed a busdma change to HEAD a couple of days
    ago, I'm sure he would appreciate some feedback.

    To answer your question, I don't think anyone is working on removing
    GIANT from this driver at the moment.

    - Christian 

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