Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:12:43 -0800 From: YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re(4) driver dropping packets when reading NFS files Message-ID: <20111227181243.GA1664@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <1480355747.640765.1324958150892.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> References: <20101108014022.GG1279@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <1480355747.640765.1324958150892.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
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On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:55:50PM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Way back in Nov 2010, this thread was related to a problem I
> had, where an re(4) { 810xE PCIe 10/100baseTX, according to the
> driver } interface dropped received packets, resulting in a
> significant impact of NFS performance.
>
> Well, it turns out that a recent (post r224506) commit seems to
> have fixed the problem. It hasn't dropped any packets since I
> upgraded to a kernel with a r228281 version of if_re.c.
>
> So, good news.
>
> Thanks to those maintaining this driver, rick
> ps: If you have a need to know which commit fixed this, I can
> probably test variants to find out. Otherwise, I'm just
> happy that it's fixed.:-)
Glad to know the issue was fixed. Probably the change made in
r227593 or 227854 might have fixed it.
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