Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:35:58 -0500 From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: tony@ubik.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ti DEVICE_POLLING patch (Was: Re: [hackers] Re: Netgraphcouldbe a router also) Message-ID: <20021120123558.A71339@angelica.unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <3DDBC451.B41E7B06@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:20:17AM -0800 References: <E18EUQ1-0006mL-0U@anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net> <3DDBBC87.70908@unixdaemons.com> <3DDBC451.B41E7B06@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:20:17AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote the words in effect of: > Hiten Pandya wrote: > > Hehe. I was not being sarcastic. I just acknoledged your statement. The > > reason I asked about committing the patch in the first place, is because I > > thought that the patch had been around on the -net@ list, and had been reviewed. > > > > My apologies. > > It's been around on the list for a while, but if it's working for > the people involved, they are not saying anything. > > Last I heard, the person who had the problem had tried the Intel > Gigabit card, but not the Tigon III, but was looking for a Gigabit > card recommendation. > > I suppose I could make the same patch for the Intel card. > > The problem is that DEVICE_POLLING is an all-or-nothing thing, > you can't control it on a card-by-card basis, even with a > sysctl, because it fills out an entry point that's statically, > rather than procedurally initialized. > > Basically, that means that the worst case, you could not turn > it on for cards that are known to work, if the patch fails to > work for the Tigon III. > > If someone with a Tigon III card could try the patch with the > DEVICE_POLLING option enabled, and device polling turned on, > and let us know that the card keeps functioning, rather than > them getting a panic, then that would be enough, I think, to > say "commit it". I think the Device Polling sysctls will need tuning, if I am thinking straightly. No? -- Hiten Pandya (hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org) http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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