From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20071009.042441.30182968.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20071009.040255.71088090.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gaagaan@gmail.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org, hadi@cyberus.ca, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, jagana@us.ibm.com, jeff@garzik.org, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, kaber@trash.net, mcarlson@broadcom.com, mchan@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, rdreier@cisco.com, rick.jones2@hp.com, Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, sri@us.ibm.com, tgraf@suug.ch, xma@us.ibm.com To: krkumar2@in.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45474 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751873AbXJILYl (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 07:24:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Krishna Kumar2 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:51:14 +0530 > David Miller wrote on 10/09/2007 04:32:55 PM: > > > Ignore LLTX, it sucks, it was a big mistake, and we will get rid of > > it. > > Great, this will make life easy. Any idea how long that would take? > It seems simple enough to do. I'd say we can probably try to get rid of it in 2.6.25, this is assuming we get driver authors to cooperate and do the conversions or alternatively some other motivated person. I can just threaten to do them all and that should get the driver maintainers going :-)