[Click] igb pollabe driver

Beyers Cronje bcronje at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 09:21:14 EDT 2011


Hi Ahmed,

I believe the RouteBricks http://routebricks.org/ project released an igb
driver and Click element to make use of multi-queuing support in Click. They
have MQfromDevice and MQtoDevice click elements. Have a look at
http://routebricks.org/code.html

Beyers

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:08 PM, ahmed A. <amego83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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