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====== Guo-Fu Tseng: Implement and Port Ethernet Drivers for gPXE ====== ===== Journal ===== * [[.:weekb4|Week -4: [ Apr 18 - May 24 ] Debug hardware problem]] * [[.:weekb3|Week -3: [ Apr 25 - May 2 ] Trace gPXE code base]] * [[.:weekb2|Week -2: [ May 3 - May 9 ] Implement JMicron driver]] * [[.:weekb1|Week -1: [ May 10 - May 16 ] Modify JMicron driver, RX offloading]] * [[.:week0|Week 0: [ May 17 - May 23 ] TCP performance test and tunning]] * [[.:week1|Week 1: [ May 24 - May 30 ] Update wiki, TCP tunning]] * [[.:week2|Week 2: [ May 31 - Jun 6 ] Update jme driver, Trace memory related codes]] * [[.:week3|Week 3 [ Jun 7 - Jun 13 ] Trace memory related codes, misc things]] * Week 4 to 7 [ Jun 14 - Jul 11 ] Studying for PhD qualifying exam. * [[soc:2010:cooldavid:journal:week8|Week 8]]: * Several TCP fixes * [[soc:2010:cooldavid:journal:week9|Week 9]]: * TCP cleanup * Trace gPXE boot initialize steps about memory environment setup. * [[soc:2010:cooldavid:journal:week10|Week 10]]: * Cleanup TCP receive queue/SACK/Window scale patches * Submit it on the list, having some test and feed back. * [[soc:2010:cooldavid:journal:week11|Week 11]]: * Testing TCP performance with different window size, network environment. * Discuss the testing results and find a reasonable size. * [[soc:2010:cooldavid:journal:week12|Week 12]]: * Possible more TCP cleanup, tuning. * gPXE scheduling and program flow documentation. * Possible more devel-docs. * TODO * meteger: there are a few PCI IDs in the current tg3 that work fine when you do a tftp or HTTP transfer but fail miserably for iscsi, for some reason. but that driver was ported to etherboot in 2003, and it took 7 years for someone to request that specific PCI ID. * mcb30: better performance in kvm with 8k than with 64k. (TCP RX Window)
