Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:51:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, ricky.packetlogic@gmail.com Subject: Re: Re: kern/135222: [igb] low speed routing between two igb interfaces Message-ID: <370660.51527.qm@web63906.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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--- On Sat, 7/11/09, ricky.packetlogic@gmail.com <ricky.packetlogic@gmail.com> wrote: > From: ricky.packetlogic@gmail.com <ricky.packetlogic@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Re: kern/135222: [igb] low speed routing between two igb interfaces > To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:46 AM > >>Intel 82575EB (and > friends) are *the* premier ethernet controllers to > >>use with FreeBSD in a server. igb should be > the most stable and > >>supported driver in the whole kernel. I can't > think of any other driver > >>and series of controllers I would rather use in a > server like this. > > Well, the good NIC is no good at all without good driver, > sadly, it's the case with stock igb driver shipped with FB. > > I hate to say this, but igb driver sucks, there're many > obvious issue in the code like wrong DMA allocation etc. You > just have to re-write completely to get igb work, i.e., to > support msi-x with multiqueue. > > >>If the drivers for these chips are now "bad", this > is a very sad day for > >>people who wanted to use FreeBSD in their dual > socket servers. > Either stick to em or re-write the igb driver. > > It's just funny that everybody keeps quite on this, is it > too difficulty to let people know it's the known issue with > igb driver? > > Ricky I thought packetlogic ran on Linux, have you finally abandoned that pig? Barney
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