Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:02:42 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare if_em breakage (was: Re: svn commit: r194865 - in head/sys: dev/e1000 modules/igb) Message-ID: <200906261202.44134.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906251507090.75138@fledge.watson.org> References: <200906241741.n5OHfTaw022417@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906251507090.75138@fledge.watson.org>
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--nextPart1842579.YJsfuWDBzt Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Jack F Vogel wrote: > > Log: > > Updates for both the em and igb drivers, add support > > for multiqueue tx, shared code updates, new device > > support, and some bug fixes. > > Since this change (and the two followups), I'm no longer able to use > if_em reliable in VMWare Fusion. I get a bit of traffic, and then > interrupts cease firing from the (virtual) card. If I lower the > interface and raise it, it will recover for a short period, and then > the same result. I'm running VMWare 2.0.5, which is the latest > version available; if I locally back out the update changes, then it > works fine so it seems unlikely to be other on-going network stack > work. I realize that VMWare's driver is probably not part of your > official test suite (not actually being a product manafactured by > Intel :-), but keeping VMWare working is pretty important from a > FreeBSD perspective! Not sure it was this commit but Virtual Box also has issues with em=20 in -current. em complains the MAC address is invalid and refuses to=20 attach. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1842579.YJsfuWDBzt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKRDNM5ZPcIHs/zowRAktfAKCjf+/bVODz+zVa271ujQCapDf4bACglTke rZOA/wuOrK+7SAJ4ypGXzlM= =0/64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1842579.YJsfuWDBzt--
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