Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:26:35 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ie(4) MPSAFE patch Message-ID: <200806011726.36771.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <200805291503.15787.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200805291503.15787.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Le Thursday 29 May 2008, John Baldwin a écrit : > I have a patch to make ie(4) MPSAFE. I have no hardware to test it > however. Note that this patch is relative to HEAD, so for testing on > RELENG_[67] you would first need to MFC the most recent commits to if_ie.c > and if_ievar.h (removing the 'unit' field from the softc) and then apply > this patch. > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ie.patch Hello, thanks for the patch ; here is the startup, for a -current kernel : ie1: <Intel EtherExpress 16> at port 0x360-0x36f iomem 0xd0000-0xd7fff irq 5 on isa0 ie1: hardware type EtherExpress 16, revision 1 ie1: bpf attached ie1: Ethernet address: 00:aa:00:26:ea:c4 ie1: [MPSAFE] ie1: [ITHREAD] it seems to be working fine (including firewalling with pf) : ie1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:aa:00:26:ea:c4 inet6 fe80::2aa:ff:fe26:eac4%ie1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 192.168.4.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.4.255 # ping 192.168.4.8 PING 192.168.4.8 (192.168.4.8): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.4.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=4.130 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.4.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.720 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.4.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.601 ms TfH PS : there is also this kind of harmless messages at boot : # ifconfig ie1 up module_register: module isa/ie_SL already exists! Module isa/ie_SL failed to register: 17 module_register: module isa/ie_EE16 already exists! Module isa/ie_EE16 failed to register: 17 module_register: module isa/ie_3C507 already exists! Module isa/ie_3C507 failed to register: 17
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