From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 18:22:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AF616A583; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.org [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBD913C457; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.org) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0II0vYJ065911; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.8/8.13.7/Submit) id l0II0vJn065910; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20070118180057.GD65429@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: obrien@freebsd.org, John Baldwin , Sergey Zaharchenko , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20070110120731.GA1515@shark.localdomain> <200701100910.13167.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070110155331.GA2762@shark.localdomain> <200701101432.41201.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701101432.41201.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Sergey Zaharchenko Subject: Re: nve related LOR triggered by lots of small packets, and a hard hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:22:10 -0000 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)