Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:09:34 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nfe: can not cvs sources anymore! Message-ID: <4560C80E.7020402@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20061119201341.GA1381@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4560657A.9000002@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20061119161749.GB31926@rambler-co.ru> <4560A1A5.4050500@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20061119201341.GA1381@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:25:41PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:08:58PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello. >>>> Using these two sources for getting nfe() driver support for my FreeBSD >>>> 6.2-BETA/AMD64 box was pretty convenient in the past weeks due to my big >>>> interrupt problems using the nve() driver. >>>> But with yesterday, I can't get the sources anymore. nfe() isn't yet a >>>> part of the 6.2 BETA, that's what I looked first for, so can anybody >>>> help me out? Is nfe() a part of 6.2-REL in the near future or are there >>>> other reasons stop spreading the sources via that cvs source? >>>> >>>> Thanks for your help in advance, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Did you try the version at >>> http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html >>> ? I use it and except for some peer-to-peer gigabit problems I >>> didn't notice any other bad signs. It's far more stable that >>> what we have now in the CVS tree. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >> Thank you for the link. >> No, I did not try this link since I thought the CVS tree's version was >> the stabelst version we have. I find it convenient by pushing it via net >> using cvs just after I upgraded my CVS tree of the sources for the >> operating system. I will keep this link in mind. >> Is there a date we can this driver expect in FreeBSD 6.2? Or is the >> driver more subject to be merged in 6.2-STABLE and for 6.3? nve() isn't >> suitable, neither with SCHED_ULE (which I use now again) and with >> SCHED_4BSD, because on my hardware platform the interrupt generation is >> much higher than that of the nfe() driver - and due to this massive >> interrupts useless for me. >> > > Please remember to turn off SCHED_ULE before submitting any and all > future bug reports, thanks :-) > > Kris > Well, yes, I do this, and as I wrote above, the problem ist even worse with SCHED_4BSD. And SCHED_ULE is now my defaukt, beacause FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64 ADN i386 is as freezing for short periods of times as never seen before ... Regards, Oliver
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