From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 7 20:26:28 2010 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 1EA36106566B for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:26:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE098FC15 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mdt-xp.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o07KQQ9t089680; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:26:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <201001072026.o07KQQ9t089680@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:26:22 -0500 To: pyunyh@gmail.com, alan bryan From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20100107201952.GO1246@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <113471.18929.qm@web50505.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100107201952.GO1246@michelle.cdnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of igb on FreeBSD 8 stable? 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: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:26:28 -0000 At 03:19 PM 1/7/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: >On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:46:14AM -0800, alan bryan wrote: > > I did some searching last night and found others using igb on > Intel Cards having high interrupts and other strange issues and > some comments to the effect that igb is soon going to have a lot of > work done to it (I believe Jack Vogel is working on it). So, can > someone give an estimation as to how soon that may be and how soon > it may make it to 8-stable? If it's going to be a while I may look > into adding a card using a different driver to test. > > >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/igb/igb.buf.patch6 > >The patch would fix unresponsive system under high network load as >well as reducing number of interrupts. The patch also contains >bus_dma(9) and watchdog timeout fix. FYI, with the above patch, the driver is quite stable for me on a box I use in my lab. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike