From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 7 06:43:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E4BAA8; Wed, 7 Aug 2013 06:43:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 166A82AA6; Wed, 7 Aug 2013 06:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jre-mbp.elischer.org (etroy.elischer.org [121.45.226.51]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.7/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r776hDhI083962 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 23:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <5201EC7C.4010209@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:43:08 +0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Venteicher Subject: Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver References: <1050637258.686.1375660230986.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> <601099152.721.1375661537866.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> <20130805202039.GA18861@devbox.vnode.local> <1174186801.993.1375743121722.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> In-Reply-To: <1174186801.993.1375743121722.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 06:43:50 -0000 On 8/6/13 6:52 AM, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- >> I have ~100 FreeBSD 8/9 VMs in my vSphere 5.1 environment, all using the >> VMware tools package from VMware. Everything has been running great for >> years. >> (we skipped vSphere 5.0). Why should I use this vmxnet driver instead of the >> VMware tools driver or the emulated e1000? >> > They are out of tree and subject to rotting. I had to use the patches > at [1] to even get them to compile on 9.1 and -current. I don't think > VMware puts much engineering resources behind it; there was a compiler > warning of a silly bug like: > if (foo) ; > do_something(); > > vmxnet3 has modern features LRO, IPv6 checksum offloading, etc that > the emulated e1000 lacks. In my test setup, e1000 tops out at 30MB/sec > but vmxnet3 goes to 50MB/sec. I'd like to hear other's experiences. it'd be nice if we could get vmware to just support the drivers in tree.. by which I mean, just submit patches.. why do they need to have it out of tree? > > [1] - http://ogris.de/vmware/ > >> -- >> Joel >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >