From owner-svn-src-stable-9@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 00:14:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C5C106566B; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 00:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC0198FC13; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 00:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q080EjpH062394; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 00:14:45 GMT (envelope-from hrs@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from hrs@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q080EjHG062392; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 00:14:45 GMT (envelope-from hrs@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201201080014.q080EjHG062392@svn.freebsd.org> From: Hiroki Sato Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 00:14:45 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org X-SVN-Group: stable-9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: svn commit: r229797 - stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for only the 9-stable src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:14:46 -0000 Author: hrs Date: Sun Jan 8 00:14:45 2012 New Revision: 229797 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229797 Log: - Add relnotes items: nfe(4) reinit issue fixed, re(4) RX int moderation changed from int taskq to one-shot timer, re(4) TSO disabled by default, re(4) RTL8105E support, and rlphy(4) RTL8201E support. Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml ============================================================================== --- stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Jan 7 23:47:09 2012 (r229796) +++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Jan 8 00:14:45 2012 (r229797) @@ -225,6 +225,10 @@ fixed. It could prevent the RX checksum offloading from working. + A bug in &man.nfe.4; driver which + could prevent reinitialization after changing the MTU has + been fixed. + A bug in &man.ral.4; and &man.run.4; drivers which could prevent hostap mode from working has been fixed. @@ -235,11 +239,31 @@ The &man.re.4; driver now supports RTL8168E/8111E-VL PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers. - The &man.re.4; driver now supports - TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) on RealTek RTL8168/8111 C - or later controllers. Note that this is disabled by - default on some old devices because broken frames can be - sent under certain conditions. + The &man.re.4; driver now supports + TX interrupt moderation on RTL810xE PCIe Fast Ethernet + controllers. + + The &man.re.4; driver now supports + another mechanism for RX interrupt moderation because of + performance problem. A &man.sysctl.8; variable + dev.re.N.int_rx_mod + has been added to control amount of time to delay RX + interrupt processing in units of microsecond. Setting it + to 0 completely disables RX interrupt + moderation. A &man.loader.8; tunable + hw.re.intr_filter controls whether the + old mechanism utilizing MSI/MSI-X capability on the + supported controllers is used or not. When setting it to + a non-zero value, the &man.re.4; driver uses the old + mechanism. The default value is 0 and + this tunable has no effect on controllers without MSI/MSI-X + capability. + + The &man.re.4; driver now + supports TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) on RealTek + RTL8168/8111 C or later controllers. Note that this is + disabled by default because broken frames can be sent + under certain conditions. The &man.re.4; driver now supports enabling TX and/or RX checksum offloading independently @@ -250,11 +274,18 @@ frame on an RTL8169C, 8169D, or 8169E controller-based network interface. + The &man.re.4; driver now support + RTL8105E PCIe Fast Ethernet controller. + + The rlphy(4) driver now support + Realtek RTL8201E 10/100 PHY found in RTL8105E + controller. + A bug in the &man.sis.4; driver has been changed. It could prevent a proper reinitialization on DP83815, DP83816, and SiS 900/7016 controllers when configuration of multicast packet handling and/or - promiscus mode is changed. + promiscuous mode is changed. A bug in &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface han been fixed. It could have a random interface @@ -387,10 +418,10 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile A bug in the &man.sh.1; program has been fixed. When a foreground job exits on a signal, a message is - printed to stdout about this. The buffer was not flushed after - this which could result in the message being written to the - wrong file if the next command was a builtin and had stdout - redirected. + printed to stdout about this. The buffer + was not flushed after this which could result in the message + being written to the wrong file if the next command was a + builtin and had stdout redirected. The &man.sh.1; program now supports a flag in trap command to