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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef-ctm@yandex.ru>
Subject:   Re: nve related LOR triggered by lots of small packets, and a hard hang
Message-ID:  <20070118180057.GD65429@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <200701101432.41201.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20070110120731.GA1515@shark.localdomain> <200701100910.13167.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070110155331.GA2762@shark.localdomain> <200701101432.41201.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:32:40PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 10:53, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:
> > Hello John!
> > 
> > Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:10:12AM -0500 you wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Have you tried using nfe(4)? :)
> > 
> > Now I have, and it works just fine, thanks (I somehow thought nfe was
> > specific to some platform). Why isn't it the default? Smaller range of
> > hardware supported?
> 
> It's just newer.  I think perhaps current@ should switch to nfe(4) rather
> than nve(4) by default.  David, any objections to that?

nfe(4) is not ready - I recently got two new machines that nve(4) works
fine on and nfe(4) is totally broken on.

I had hoped to make nfe(4) the default already and MFC it to RELENG_6,
but I think that will only bring PR's to us.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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