Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-20 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Sep 19, 2013, at 16:08 , Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:54:34PM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote: >> >> On Sep 14, 2013, at 15:24 , Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Olivier Cochard-Labb?

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-19 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Sep 14, 2013, at 15:24 , Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Olivier Cochard-Labbé > wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>> >>> IXIA ? For the timescales we need to address we don't need an IXIA, >>> a netmap sender is more than enough >>> >>

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-19 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Sep 14, 2013, at 15:24 , Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Olivier Cochard-Labbé > wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> > >> IXIA ? For the timescales we need to address we don't need an IXIA, > >> a netmap sender is more than enough

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-13 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Aug 29, 2013, at 7:49 , Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > There's a lot of good stuff to review here, thanks! > > Yes, the ixgbe RX lock needs to die in a fire. It's kinda pointless to keep > locking things like that on a per-packet basis. We should be able to do > this in a cleaner way - we ca

Network Recieve Performance Working Group

2013-06-09 Thread George Neville-Neil
Howdy, At the Network Receive Performance working group at BSDCan we covered a narrower set of topics than we normally do, which seems to have resulted in a reasonably sized work list for improving our systems in this area. The main issues relate to getting a good API that addresses multi-queu

Beyond Buildworld Dev Summit Working Group Report

2013-06-09 Thread George Neville-Neil
Howdy, The Beyond Buildworld working group discussed many subjects around our build system, including upcoming changes to do a better job of addressing embedded systems, the integration of bmake, and the need for better incremental build support. The full notes are on the wiki and also pasted

Re: dtrace vs module unloading

2013-02-06 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Jan 27, 2013, at 07:24 , Andriy Gapon wrote: > > It seems that FreeBSD DTrace currently does not track module loading / > unloading > at all. dtrace_module_loaded/dtrace_module_unloaded are both under ifdef sun. > > I think that this is a root cause of e.g. fbt probes for some functions >

Re: Make kernel aware of NIC queues

2013-02-06 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Feb 6, 2013, at 09:37 , Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 06:19:27PM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: >> Hello list! >> >> Today more and more NICs are capable of splitting traffic to different >> Rx/TX rings permitting OS to dispatch this traffic on different CPU >> cores.

Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-13 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:11 , Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Both parties (Isilon/Juniper) are converging on the ATF porting work that Giorgos/myself have done after talking at the FreeBSD Foundation meet-n-greet. I have contributed al

Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-04 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Oct 2, 2012, at 10:37 , John Baldwin wrote: > This is very non-obvious to the public at large (e.g. there was no public > response to one group's inquiry about the second ATF import for example). > Also, given that you had no idea that sgf@ and obrien@ were working on > importing NetBSD's

Re: projects/armv6 merged to HEAD

2012-08-21 Thread George Neville-Neil
On Aug 17, 2012, at 05:24 , Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: > >> projects/armv6 branch was merged to HEAD and should be considered dead now. >> This patch is a result of a joint effort by many people. Including but not >> limited to: > > Amazing wor