[Click] igb pollabe driver

ahmed A. amego83 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 09:08:29 EDT 2011


Sorry, I think my question in my previous post/email was not clear enough. I
meant by the question that whether click can use the hardware
multi-queuing supported by this driver (igb driver ) or it needs some other
patches ? and if those patches are available ?

Ahmed

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:14 PM, ahmed A. <amego83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Roman,
>
> Yes, I was able to port the changes to the our driver and it is working
> now. I attached a copy of it for the others who may be interested in this
> driver which supports also quad port igb intel cards. I noticed that your
> driver does not support hardware multi-queue, please correct me if I am
> wrong, so I was wondering if there is any available patch to support
> hardware multi-queuing in this driver ?
>
> Thank you again
>
> Best regards,
> Ahmed
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:12 PM, ahmed A. <amego83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Roman,
>>
>> Yes, I was able to port the changes to the our driver and it is working
>> now. I attached a copy of it for the others who may be interested in this
>> driver which supports also quad port igb intel cards. I noticed that your
>> driver does not support hardware multi-queue, please correct me if I am
>> wrong, so I was wondering if there is any available patch to support
>> hardware multi-queuing in this driver ?
>>
>> Thank you again
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ahmed
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Roman Chertov <rchertov at cs.ucsb.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> If you use lspci you can find out the chipset of the cards that you have.
>>>  The driver that I gave to you is dated to 2008, so there is a good chance
>>> that it does not support the later chipsets.  You can grep in the src
>>> directory to see if your chipsets are supported or not.  You can try to look
>>> at the source code and then try to port the necessary changes over to a new
>>> driver.
>>>
>>> Roman
>>>
>>>
>>>


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