From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 19:41:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D72106564A for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrey@zonov.org) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4148FC15 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbgm6 with SMTP id gm6so486118lbb.13 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:41:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=68Is6Pnkjs23cXeQGwvyGqcJVpShlhqDGNo7zBk8I9M=; b=gRb2OLaZ8c1UJJnq1YYg7LDVvb6wP73PzLkzvIiqOfut6O8XIt39QPdTMeRFTwqnrE mVw30VrtHJG4ZWM6AUMxmG9UnoXJ6Jqeso0VINkb9h+xL+X1YPAY8p0EwrQYLRIEWgsj k+1fpI7u9mipcpyaVaotTByl/CHpXgRlChKH1JExuFoGEqsxfCIU7QzQ2jlN5EhBixKz LYok1vsSrg57+9Ab/x/WXnRdOT502OjTIONby1BrIl04zhVj5wBXdXtaO7hiWg8Z7H5Z aQgswpss1vcCm0hXk3/o+cGA3rKQmkBIRumbE6fva5hQeDTH2zRkQ2S6Cb609IRguwbs nMTQ== Received: by 10.152.110.170 with SMTP id ib10mr4307021lab.7.1335382902453; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zont-osx.local (ppp95-165-158-180.pppoe.spdop.ru. [95.165.158.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id mm11sm629974lab.2.2012.04.25.12.41.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F985374.9080807@zonov.org> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:41:40 +0400 From: Andrey Zonov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kai Gallasch References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnsCakB3yg/wAWVTlwQ+v+XeIAfKRxQy3mCIMhprKT0q+700IHnQL+DtuQHoUMBshuracBh Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0 - BCE_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT kernel option for bce device still needed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:41:44 -0000 On 4/19/12 11:11 PM, Kai Gallasch wrote: > Hi. > > I found the comment below in an older 8.1 kernel config file. > > # BCE_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT > # freebsd-current@freebsd.org/2009-11/msg00065.html > # [The bce driver does not have a memory leak, > # it does however have a bug which causes memory > # fragmentation leading to denied mbuf allocation.] > #=20 > # You need to put "options BCE_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT" > # In your kernel to enable the work arround. > > Is the kernel option BCE_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT still needed for a FreeBSD 9 kernel if you use the bce device (broadcom) ? > I find it in the 9.0 kernel LINT file but it's not part of the GENERIC kernel. > Hi, There is no such option in the kernel anymore, instead there is hw.bce.hdr_split tunable which is turn on by default. -- Andrey Zonov