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Author: yongari
Date: Thu Dec 17 18:37:11 2009
New Revision: 200641
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/200641

Log:
  Document newly added loader tunable and sysctl variables.
   o hw.vge.msi_disable
   o dev.vge.%d.int_holdoff
   o dev.vge.%d.rx_coal_pkt
   o dev.vge.%d.tx_coal_pkt

Modified:
  head/share/man/man4/vge.4

Modified: head/share/man/man4/vge.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/vge.4	Thu Dec 17 18:17:46 2009	(r200640)
+++ head/share/man/man4/vge.4	Thu Dec 17 18:37:11 2009	(r200641)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd February 21, 2007
+.Dd December 17, 2009
 .Dt VGE 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -173,6 +173,38 @@ ZyXEL GN650-T 64-bit PCI Gigabit Etherne
 .It
 ZyXEL GN670-T 32-bit PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (ZX1702)
 .El
+.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
+Tunables can be set at the
+.Xr loader 8
+prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
+.Xr loader.conf 5 .
+.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
+.It Va hw.vge.msi_disable
+This tunable disables MSI support on the Ethernet hardware.
+The default value is 0.
+.El
+.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
+The following variables are available as both
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variables and
+.Xr loader 8
+tunables:
+.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
+.It Va dev.vge.%d.int_holdoff
+Maximum number of time to delay interrupts.
+The valid range is 0 to 5100 in units of 1us, the default is
+150 (150us).
+The resolution of of timer is about 20us so finer tuning than
+20us wouldn't be available.
+The interface should be brought down and up again before a change
+takes effect.
+.It Va dev.vge.%d.rx_coal_pkt
+Maximum number of packets to fire Rx completion interrupt.
+The valid range is 1 to 255, the default is 64.
+.It Va dev.vge.%d.tx_coal_pkt
+Maximum number of packets to fire Tx completion interrupt.
+The valid range is 1 to 255, the default is 128.
+.El
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 .Bl -diag
 .It "vge%d: couldn't map memory"