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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:32:21 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Nick Rogers <ncrogers@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, mlaier@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20100306233221.GA27176@icarus.home.lan>
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On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 02:56:07PM -0800, Nick Rogers wrote:
> ALTQ + RELENG_8 + em(4) will not work at the moment. It does not matter what
> your PF ruleset looks like or how much traffic you are pushing. The packets
> that transit the em interface simply never make it to the ALTQ queues (not
> even the interface's root queue). Thus any kind of bandwidth rate limiting
> or whatever you are doing will not work.
> 
> This was fixed by the following commit. I think its supposed to MFC soon?
> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=203834

Nick, thanks for pointing me to this.  I'll hold off on doing our
upgrade (on that one server) until said code is backported to RELENG_8.

Max, will this be MFC'd in about a week?  Usually things of this sort
MFC'd after 4 weeks, but I thought I'd get confirmation.

Thanks everyone!

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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