Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:17:30 -0800 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, alan bryan <alan.bryan@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of igb on FreeBSD 8 stable? Message-ID: <2a41acea1001081217o9457a20j978c8aa2d8b6a2dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201001072026.o07KQQ9t089680@lava.sentex.ca> References: <113471.18929.qm@web50505.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100107201952.GO1246@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <201001072026.o07KQQ9t089680@lava.sentex.ca>
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I am incorporating some of Pyun's ideas into my new version, although some changes I am unconvinced about... There will always be later :) Jack On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: > 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<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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