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Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCHES] TX batching
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:20:48 -0400
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On Sun, 2007-23-09 at 12:36 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:

> please be reminded that we're going to strip down e1000 and most of the features
> should go into e1000e, which has much less hardware workarounds. I'm still
> reluctant to putting in new stuff in e1000 - I really want to chop it down first ;)

sure - the question then is, will you take those changes if i use
e1000e? theres a few cleanups that have nothing to do with batching;
take a look at the modified e1000 on the git tree.

cheers,
jamal