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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com,
	kumarkr@linux.ibm.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	rdreier@cisco.com, mcarlson@broadcom.com,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	gaagaan@gmail.com, jagana@us.ibm.com,
	general@lists.openfabrics.org, mchan@broadcom.com, tgraf@suug.ch,
	sri@us.ibm.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [DOC] Net batching driver howto
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:28:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190759306.4244.30.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070925131620.617794ae.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

On Tue, 2007-25-09 at 13:16 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:54:19 -0400 jamal wrote:
> 
> > I have updated the driver howto to match the patches i posted yesterday.
> > attached. 
> 
> Thanks for sending this.

Thank you for reading it Randy. 

> This is an early draft, right?

Its a third revision - but you could call it early. When it is done, i
will probably put a pointer to it in some patch.

> I'll fix some typos etc. in it (patch attached) and add some whitespace.
> Please see RD: in the patch for more questions/comments.

Thanks, will do and changes will show up in the next update.

> IMO it needs some changes to eliminate words like "we", "you",
> and "your" (words that personify code).  Those words are OK
> when talking about yourself.

The narrative intent is supposed to be i (or someone doing the
description) sitting there with a pen and paper and maybe a laptop and
walking through the details with someone who needs to understand those
details. If you think it is important to make it formal, then by all
means be my guest.

Again, thanks for taking the time.

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-14  9:00 [PATCH 0/10 REV5] Implement skb batching and support in IPoIB/E1000 Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14  9:01 ` [PATCH 1/10 REV5] [Doc] HOWTO Documentation for batching Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 18:37   ` [ofa-general] " Randy Dunlap
2007-09-17  4:10     ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-17  4:13       ` [ofa-general] " Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14  9:01 ` [PATCH 2/10 REV5] [core] Add skb_blist & support " Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 12:46   ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-17  3:51     ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-14  9:01 ` [PATCH 3/10 REV5] [sched] Modify qdisc_run to support batching Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 12:15   ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-17  3:49     ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-14  9:02 ` [PATCH 4/10 REV5] [ethtool] Add ethtool support Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14  9:02 ` [PATCH 5/10 REV5] [IPoIB] Header file changes Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14  9:03 ` [PATCH 6/10 REV5] [IPoIB] CM & Multicast changes Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14  9:03 ` [PATCH 7/10 REV5] [IPoIB] Verbs changes Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14  9:03 ` [PATCH 8/10 REV5] [IPoIB] Post and work completion handler changes Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14  9:04 ` [PATCH 9/10 REV5] [IPoIB] Implement batching Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14  9:04 ` [PATCH 10/10 REV5] [E1000] " Krishna Kumar
2007-09-14 12:47   ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-17  3:56     ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-11-13 21:28   ` [ofa-general] " Kok, Auke
2007-11-14  8:30     ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-14 12:49 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/10 REV5] Implement skb batching and support in IPoIB/E1000 Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-09-16 23:17 ` David Miller
2007-09-17  0:29   ` jamal
2007-09-17  1:02     ` David Miller
2007-09-17  2:14       ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-17  2:25         ` David Miller
2007-09-17  3:01           ` jamal
2007-09-17  3:13             ` David Miller
2007-09-17 12:51               ` jamal
2007-09-17 16:37                 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-09-17  4:46           ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-09-23 17:53     ` [PATCHES] TX batching jamal
2007-09-23 17:56       ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock jamal
2007-09-23 17:58         ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/4] [NET_BATCH] Introduce batching interface jamal
2007-09-23 18:00           ` [PATCH 3/4][NET_BATCH] net core use batching jamal
2007-09-23 18:02             ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 4/4][NET_SCHED] kill dev->gso_skb jamal
2007-09-30 18:53               ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 3/3][NET_SCHED] " jamal
2007-10-07 18:39               ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 3/3][NET_BATCH] " jamal
2007-09-30 18:52             ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching jamal
2007-10-01  4:11               ` Bill Fink
2007-10-01 13:30                 ` jamal
2007-10-02  4:25                   ` [ofa-general] " Bill Fink
2007-10-02 13:20                     ` jamal
2007-10-03  5:29                       ` [ofa-general] " Bill Fink
2007-10-03 13:42                         ` jamal
2007-10-01 10:42               ` [ofa-general] " Patrick McHardy
2007-10-01 13:21                 ` jamal
2007-10-08  5:03                   ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-08 13:17                     ` jamal
2007-10-09  3:09                       ` [ofa-general] " Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 13:10                         ` jamal
2007-10-07 18:38             ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-30 18:51           ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] [NET_BATCH] Introduce batching interface jamal
2007-09-30 18:54             ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/3] " jamal
2007-10-07 18:36           ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-08  9:59             ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-08 13:49               ` jamal
2007-09-24 19:12         ` [ofa-general] RE: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-09-24 22:51           ` jamal
2007-09-24 22:57             ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-09-24 23:38               ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-24 23:47                 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-09-25  0:14                   ` [ofa-general] " Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-25  0:31                     ` [ofa-general] " Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-09-25 13:15                     ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-25 15:24                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-25 22:14                         ` jamal
2007-09-25 22:43                           ` jamal
2007-09-25 13:08                   ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-08  4:51                 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-10-08 13:34                   ` jamal
2007-10-08 14:22                     ` parallel networking (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock) Jeff Garzik
2007-10-08 15:18                       ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-08 21:11                       ` [ofa-general] Re: parallel networking David Miller
2007-10-08 22:30                         ` jamal
2007-10-08 22:33                           ` David Miller
2007-10-08 22:35                             ` [ofa-general] " Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-08 23:42                             ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-09  1:53                         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 14:59                           ` Michael Krause
2007-10-08 21:05                     ` [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock David Miller
2007-09-23 18:19       ` [PATCHES] TX batching Jeff Garzik
2007-09-23 19:11         ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-23 19:36           ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-23 21:20             ` jamal
2007-09-24  7:00               ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-24 22:38                 ` jamal
2007-09-24 22:52                   ` [ofa-general] " Kok, Auke
2007-09-24 22:54           ` [DOC] Net batching driver howto jamal
2007-09-25 20:16             ` [ofa-general] " Randy Dunlap
2007-09-25 22:28               ` jamal [this message]
2007-09-25  0:15           ` [PATCHES] TX batching Jeff Garzik
2007-09-30 18:50       ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-09-30 19:19         ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-07 18:34       ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-08 12:51         ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-10-08 14:05           ` jamal
2007-10-09  8:14             ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 13:25               ` jamal
2007-09-17  4:08   ` [PATCH 0/10 REV5] Implement skb batching and support in IPoIB/E1000 Krishna Kumar2

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