From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 10:09:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8787216A418 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:09:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patpro@patpro.net) Received: from smtp.univ-lyon2.fr (smtp.univ-lyon2.fr [159.84.143.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4724413C458 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:09:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patpro@patpro.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.univ-lyon2.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3925CC84C7; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:09:42 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at univ-lyon2.fr Received: from smtp.univ-lyon2.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.univ-lyon2.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8vqfowtPCh5b; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:09:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from [159.84.148.56] (dhcp-159-84-148-56.univ-lyon2.fr [159.84.148.56]) by smtp.univ-lyon2.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DA15CC84BC; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:09:41 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20071221090352.GA6040@harmless.hu> References: <66621B3A-7879-4DE8-B4D5-5A46B91BAC5E@patpro.net> <20071221090352.GA6040@harmless.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1777A05B-B3E8-42A6-BC88-E5DA2DBB650C@patpro.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Patrick Proniewski Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:09:40 +0100 To: Gergely CZUCZY X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel drivers vs. freebsd drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:09:44 -0000 On 21 d=E9c. 07, at 10:03, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: >> I've just discovered that Intel provides some drivers for the =20 >> Intel PRO/1000 Family on FreeBSD: >> I was wondering: is there any point in running those drivers =20 >> instead of the freebsd ones, performance wise of course. > AFAIK these are the drivers that can be found in the base system as =20= > well. > Intel's drivers are pretty fine, there's no need to write new ones. I've made a quick comparison between /usr/src/sys/dev/mii/e1000phy.c =20 (freebsd 6.2) and e1000_phy.c (as part of the em-6.6.6.tgz provided =20 by Intel), and the too files are quite different. But well, I'm not a developer, and that's probably not significant. regards, patpro=