Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:26:22 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: pyunyh@gmail.com, alan bryan <alan.bryan@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of igb on FreeBSD 8 stable? Message-ID: <201001072026.o07KQQ9t089680@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20100107201952.GO1246@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <113471.18929.qm@web50505.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100107201952.GO1246@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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At 03:19 PM 1/7/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: >On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:46:14AM -0800, alan bryan wrote: > > I did some searching last night and found others using igb on > Intel Cards having high interrupts and other strange issues and > some comments to the effect that igb is soon going to have a lot of > work done to it (I believe Jack Vogel is working on it). So, can > someone give an estimation as to how soon that may be and how soon > it may make it to 8-stable? If it's going to be a while I may look > into adding a card using a different driver to test. > > >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/igb/igb.buf.patch6 > >The patch would fix unresponsive system under high network load as >well as reducing number of interrupts. The patch also contains >bus_dma(9) and watchdog timeout fix. FYI, with the above patch, the driver is quite stable for me on a box I use in my lab. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike
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