introducing chuck silvers

[Chuck Silvers]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:38:24PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> PRs often (unfortunately) get lost.  If you can provide an enumeration of your
> changes, I can introduce you to a committer that works in that area to help get
> the changes into the tree.

... and some more changes from the last couple of weeks:

 - support for larger kernel RPC sizes (ie. for the NFS server).
   this probably needs more work but it would be useful to discuss it with someone.

 - improve kernel RPC worker thread efficiency by only waking up a thread
   when there's at least 1 complete RPC waiting in the socket buffer.

 - enhance the open-vm-tools vmxnet driver to use more rx buffers if the hypervisor
   supports it, so that it's much less likely to drop packets.
   it looks like there's still a lot more that could be done to improve this driver,
   eg. TSO/LRO, checksum offloading, using the large-packet rx ring, etc.
   it might be better to skip all this and just port the vmxnet3 driver from linux,
   but that seems likely to be a larger undertaking.



I'll guess that rick macklem would be the person to talk to about the NFS/RPC stuff,
is that right?

-Chuck