Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:20:11 +0100 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New em driver Message-ID: <op.ticyzxs48527sy@guido.klop.ws> In-Reply-To: <op.tia8fkq08527sy@guido.klop.ws> References: <2a41acea0610271844o4759424cv35a018ffc0c23373@mail.gmail.com> <op.tia8fkq08527sy@guido.klop.ws>
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On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:48:46 +0100, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:44:37 +0200, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After a conference call today, it was decided that a merge of >> my Intel driver base and the STABLE code would take place. >> >> This code undoes the INTR_FAST/taskqueue approach for right >> now. Work will continue to get that to work, but the hope is that >> this driver will be more stable for the 6.2 release. >> >> I encourage everyone that has been having issues to pull the >> new driver and give us feedback. A few select testers so far >> have seen stable performance. > > I'm running this at my workstation at work. Today it still had > DEVICE_POLLING compiled in, but no +polling on the interface. It looks > ok. I recompiled without DEVICE_POLLING in the kernel tonight and wil > report when I have more experience tomorrow. > I didn't really stress-test it, but that wasn't necessary in the past to > trigger the watchdog timeouts. A little CPU load did the job in the past. > > Ronald. Without DEVICE_POLLING in the kernel my em0 also survived the day. But again I didn't stresstest it, because there was no time to do that at work. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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