Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch?

2009-04-08 Thread H.Fazaeli
Dear Jack Can you please comment on below statements ?! Is the assertion true for all OSes (windows, linux, ...) or it is just freebsd? I am actually concerned in how much production ready is igb drivers in your opinion. As a matter of fact, We have been (and are) using em driver

Re: Multi-BSS problem with Atheros 5212

2009-04-08 Thread Sam Leffler
Sam Leffler wrote: Boris Kochergin wrote: Ahoy. I'm having trouble with multiple hostap-mode wlan pseudo-devices. The machine is an 8-CURRENT from yesterday: # uname -a FreeBSD test 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Apr 7 16:54:56 UTC 2009 r...@test:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i3

Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch?

2009-04-08 Thread Barney Cordoba
--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Barney Cordoba wrote: > From: Barney Cordoba > Subject: Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch? > To: "Robert Watson" > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Ivan Voras" > Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 9:18 AM > --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Robert Watson > wrote: > > > From: Ro

Re: Multi-BSS problem with Atheros 5212

2009-04-08 Thread Sam Leffler
Boris Kochergin wrote: Ahoy. I'm having trouble with multiple hostap-mode wlan pseudo-devices. The machine is an 8-CURRENT from yesterday: # uname -a FreeBSD test 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Apr 7 16:54:56 UTC 2009 r...@test:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 # dmesg | grep

Multi-BSS problem with Atheros 5212

2009-04-08 Thread Boris Kochergin
Ahoy. I'm having trouble with multiple hostap-mode wlan pseudo-devices. The machine is an 8-CURRENT from yesterday: # uname -a FreeBSD test 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Apr 7 16:54:56 UTC 2009 r...@test:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 # dmesg | grep ath ath0: mem 0xf41

Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch?

2009-04-08 Thread Barney Cordoba
--- On Tue, 4/7/09, Robert Watson wrote: > From: Robert Watson > Subject: Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch? > To: "Barney Cordoba" > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Ivan Voras" > Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 8:56 AM > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Barney Cordoba wrote: > > >> Have you tri

Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch?

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Barney Cordoba wrote: Is there any work being done on lighter weight locks for queues? It seems ridiculous to avoid using queues because of lock contention when the locks are only protecting a couple lines of code. My reading is that there are two, closely related, things

Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch?

2009-04-08 Thread Barney Cordoba
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Robert Watson wrote: > From: Robert Watson > Subject: Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch? > To: "Ivan Voras" > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 2:52 PM > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Ivan Voras wrote: > > >> I think we're talking slightly at cros

Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch?

2009-04-08 Thread Barney Cordoba
--- On Wed, 4/8/09, H.Fazaeli wrote: > From: H.Fazaeli > Subject: Re: Advice on a multithreaded netisr patch? > To: barney_cord...@yahoo.com > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Ivan Voras" > Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 1:42 AM > Barney Cordoba wrote: > > > > > > --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Ivan Vor