Plan to remove GIANT dependence in ixgb driver

[Christian Brueffer]

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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