From owner-freebsd-net Tue Dec 4 0:23:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.macomnet.ru (relay1.macomnet.ru [195.128.64.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4D337B416; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 00:23:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.macomnet.ru (maxim@news1.macomnet.ru [195.128.64.14]) by relay1.macomnet.ru (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB48NDR1421512; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:23:13 +0300 (MSK) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:23:13 +0300 (MSK) From: Maxim Konovalov To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: net polling code now in STABLE. In-Reply-To: <20011203221742.A50473@iguana.aciri.org> Message-ID: <20011204111900.C19067-100000@news1.macomnet.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Luigi, On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > [Bcc to -stable because of relevance there] > > With the approval of the release engineer, a revised version of > the network polling code is now in STABLE. It would be great if > you could try it out and send feedback, so we con sort out issues > (if any) before the release of 4.5. > > Do not be afraid to upgrade, because unless you explicitly enable > the new code with the kernel option mentioned below, your kernel > will not be affected by the patch. > > The code is only for i386 architecture, non-SMP (it would be rather > useless on SMP boxes, anyways). Devices supported so far are "dc", > "fxp" and "sis". I can patch more drivers if you ask, but you need > to test the patches yourself because i do not have access to other > 100M and 1G cards (except perhaps "xl"). We have a very busy ftp server with xl card where we can test the code. So it would be great if you adopt the pathces for xl. Thank you! > [As a side note -- there have been significant performance improvement > changes to the "dc" and "sis" drivers recently, so if you have one > of these two cards, it might be worthwhile to upgrade]. > > The commit message follows. Have fun. > > cheers > luigi > [ commit message ] - -maxim -- Maxim Konovalov, MAcomnet, Internet-Intranet Dept., system engineer phone: +7 (095) 796-9079, mailto: maxim@macomnet.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message