Plan to remove GIANT dependence in ixgb driver

[Maxime Henrion]

Christian Brueffer wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, actually Paul already tested my changes and thanks to him I'll MFC
them to RELENG_5 if re@ gives me his approval.

Cheers,
Maxime