From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 18:16:33 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72E45C8B; Tue, 20 May 2014 18:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.wemm.org (smtp2.wemm.org [192.203.228.78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp2.wemm.org", Issuer "StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D92D216D; Tue, 20 May 2014 18:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hater-dm.corp.yahoo.com (nat-dip4.cfw-a-gci.corp.yahoo.com [209.131.62.113]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: peter) by smtp2.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B8CD44A; Tue, 20 May 2014 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=wemm.org; s=m20140428; t=1400609792; bh=H0BGroW0osNaZO03GrZHHe/QTPwhWMD8GJlhmJEBIPY=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=Z6ARTPNGqfBF4wToQKjo0tYHe2KLYOwHfTQr35MCVeJKP8XlvxOCOH9jro6gu6R7f K1WWBk7/POe1snHcLARRTN+dqKrSJ87bGBB2vmEgcabvHaUFW4ABklF+wlxJUvqCB/ sxevgWynjvTlHQQ4x2THYhJAH9AMMtF0Zjf9Vl+g= Message-ID: <537B9BFE.4010304@wemm.org> Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:16:30 -0700 From: Peter Wemm User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel , Bruce Evans Subject: Re: svn commit: r266423 - in head/sys: conf dev/i40e modules/i40e References: <201405190121.s4J1L3qA068339@svn.freebsd.org> <53796149.8060000@freebsd.org> <537B714A.5080500@freebsd.org> <537B726C.1080000@freebsd.org> <20140521014355.V3433@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "src-committers@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" , Rui Paulo , Jack F Vogel , Julian Elischer X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 18:16:33 -0000 On 5/20/14, 9:08 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: > If you don't like the name there's this wonderful feature of ifconfig > > ifconfig i40e0 name eth0 (or whatever pleases you...) > > Oh and Bruce, I did run into the string length issue, so with this driver > the queues > are all named 'q%d', I might go back and change the earlier drivers. > > I found the 'too long' strings caused some really weird behavior with > vmstat once > you had 32 queues, btw. > > Jack > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Bruce Evans > wrote: > > On Tue, 20 May 2014, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On 5/20/14, 11:14 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On 5/20/14, 1:50 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: > > On 18 May 2014, at 18:41, Julian Elischer > > wrote: > > On 5/19/14, 9:21 AM, Jack F Vogel wrote: > > Author: jfv > Date: Mon May 19 01:21:02 2014 > New Revision: 266423 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266423 > > Log: > This is the beta release of the driver for the new > Intel 40G Ethernet Controller XL710 Family. > This is > the core driver, a VF driver called i40evf, > will be > following soon. Questions or comments to myself or > my co-developer Eric Joyner. Cheers! > > love the name.. > > Aesthetics aside, I think the name should be changed. > Network drivers always used [a-z] for name and [0-9] for > unit. Can you find an example where this is not true? > > > I just meant the XL (Roman Numeral 40) part.. > > > sorry to have caused this fuss jsut because I like the use of the > common "XL" name to (in this case) hint at 40. > the device name in netstat could be ixlgNNN (intel 40gig) even > if the device is aimed at the 710 (and later 720 etc..) > > > Then the correct name is xlN, but unfortunately ;) wpaul already used > up most > of the 2-letter namespace (xl went in 1998). ixl would be OK. > > Bruce > > I'm pretty sure the original naming would have caused drama at work with their monitoring system - I seem to recall that they "know" that interface names are alpha chars followed by an interface instance number. I suspect that that might exclude I would much rather see something like ixlN -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV