From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 26 03:05:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3AD1065674; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD41F8FC0C; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n5Q2WjYL083080 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:02:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:02:42 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200906241741.n5OHfTaw022417@svn.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1842579.YJsfuWDBzt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906261202.44134.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.563 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Jack F Vogel , Robert Watson , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare if_em breakage (was: Re: svn commit: r194865 - in head/sys: dev/e1000 modules/igb) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:05:58 -0000 --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--