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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:22:55 +0400
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: em(4) patch for test
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:02:00PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
T>   Colleagues,
T> 
T>   since the if_em problem was taken as a late showstopper for 6.0-RELEASE,
T> I am asking you to help with testing of the fixes made in HEAD.
T> 
T>   Does your em(4) interface wedge for some time?
T>   Do you see a lot of errors in 'netstat -i' output? Does these errors
T>   increase not monotonously but they have peaks?
T> 
T> If the answer is yes, then the attached patch is likely to fix your problem.
T> If the answer is no, then you are still encouraged to help with testing
T> and install the patch to check that no regressions are introduced. If you
T> skip this, then you may encounter regressions after release, so you have
T> been warned.
T> 
T>   So, in short: please test! Thanks in advance!
T> 
T> The patch is against fresh RELENG_6.

   Christian has prepared a patch for RELENG_5:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~csjp/if_em.c.1129840898.diff

   This is the most important bit in all changes to em.

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