Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:12:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=C3=ABl?= <joel.bertrand@systella.fr> Subject: Re: Realtek re(4) driver Message-ID: <201804111412.w3BECXhb028056@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <17a3825a-03f4-0760-8d4f-1ce28a48cfdd@FreeBSD.org>
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> David Wolfskill wrote: > >> I use a diskless workstation. With re driver provided by FreeBSD kernel > >> (9/10/11.x), system randomly crashed because ethernet driver stalls (and > >> datarate is always less than 300mbps). With official realtek driver > >> (v194.01), system now runs as expected (with datarate up to 1 Gbps). > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166724 I have put that bug back on a public bug list (net@freebsd.org) so that it appears in the nag mails sent out periodically. I think I might have some of that hardware around here, but not sure if it is that specific chip. I do know that some "re(4)" cards work just fine with FreeBSD, but others have issues, I suspect the ones that have issues are ones that have hardware bugs that need a specific software work around. I do have this: re0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x84321043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x06 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.' device = 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller' and I use that pretty regular, including NFS, but rarely push more than 1 or 2 gigabyte through it in any one operation. (src tree size chunks go in and out of that box). > Anyone interested in taking the bounty or contributing to it? Perhaps > the FreeBSD Foundation should jump in? > > -- > Alex Dupre -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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