From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: krkumar2@in.ibm.com
Cc: jagana@us.ibm.com, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, gaagaan@gmail.com,
jeff@garzik.org, Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se,
kumarkr@linux.ibm.com, rdreier@cisco.com,
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herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:01:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808.150137.50597736.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF09D78F6D.0A3EBAD3-ON65257331.003CB0E9-65257331.003D526B@in.ibm.com>
From: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:39:47 +0530
> What do you generally think of the patch/implementation ? :)
We have two driver implementation paths on recieve and now
we'll have two on send, and that's not a good trend.
In an ideal world all the drivers would be NAPI and netif_rx()
would only be used by tunneling drivers and similar in the
protocol layers. And likewise all sends would go through
->hard_start_xmit().
If you can come up with a long term strategy that gets rid of
the special transmit method, that'd be great.
We should make Linux network drivers easy to write, not more difficult
by constantly adding most interfaces than we consolidate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 9:31 [ofa-general] [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 9:31 ` [PATCH 1/9 Rev3] [Doc] HOWTO Documentation for batching Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 9:31 ` [PATCH 2/9 Rev3] [core] Add skb_blist & hard_start_xmit_batch Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 10:59 ` [ofa-general] " Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-08 11:24 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-08 12:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-09 3:09 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-08 9:31 ` [PATCH 3/9 Rev3] [sched] Modify qdisc_run to support batching Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 12:14 ` [ofa-general] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-09 3:13 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-08 14:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-08-08 15:26 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-08-09 4:06 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-08 9:31 ` [PATCH 4/9 Rev3] [ethtool] Add ethtool support Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 9:32 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 5/9 Rev3] [IPoIB] Header file changes Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 9:32 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 6/9 Rev3] [IPoIB] CM & Multicast changes Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 9:32 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 7/9 Rev3] [IPoIB] Verb changes Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 9:32 ` [PATCH 8/9 Rev3] [IPoIB] Post and work completion handler changes Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 9:32 ` [PATCH 9/9 Rev3] [IPoIB] Implement the new batching API Krishna Kumar
2007-08-08 10:49 ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/9 Rev3] Implement batching skb API and support in IPoIB David Miller
2007-08-08 11:09 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-08 22:01 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-08-09 4:19 ` [ofa-general] " Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-09 4:27 ` David Miller
2007-08-09 6:26 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-08 13:42 ` [ofa-general] " Herbert Xu
2007-08-08 15:14 ` jamal
2007-08-08 20:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-08 22:40 ` jamal
2007-08-08 22:22 ` David Miller
2007-08-08 22:53 ` jamal
2007-08-09 0:06 ` Shirley Ma
2007-08-09 3:19 ` [ofa-general] " Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-14 9:02 ` Krishna Kumar2
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-17 6:06 Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-21 7:18 ` David Miller
2007-08-21 12:30 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-08-21 18:51 ` David Miller
2007-08-21 21:09 ` jamal
2007-08-22 4:11 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-08-22 4:22 ` David Miller
2007-08-22 17:09 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-22 20:21 ` David Miller
2007-08-23 22:04 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-08-23 22:25 ` jamal
2007-08-23 22:35 ` [ofa-general] " Rick Jones
2007-08-23 22:41 ` jamal
2007-08-24 3:18 ` Bill Fink
2007-08-24 12:14 ` jamal
2007-08-24 18:08 ` Bill Fink
2007-08-24 21:25 ` David Miller
2007-08-24 18:46 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-25 0:42 ` John Heffner
2007-08-26 8:41 ` [ofa-general] " Bill Fink
2007-08-27 1:32 ` John Heffner
2007-08-27 2:04 ` David Miller
2007-08-27 23:23 ` jamal
2007-09-14 7:20 ` [ofa-general] " Bill Fink
2007-08-23 22:30 ` David Miller
2007-08-23 22:38 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-08-24 3:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
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