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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:17:33 +0200
From:      Michael <freebsdusb@bindone.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Bug in igb driver
Message-ID:  <4A25185D.2060304@bindone.de>

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Hello,

we encountered problems using igb driver on a Supermicro dual quad-core
system (X7DWU).
It features an Intel Gigabit dual port controller (82575).

The IP forwarding performance was extremely bad (5 kb/s up to 50 kb/s)
until we disabled
Large Receive Offloading in /etc/sysctl.conf:
dev.igb.0.enable_lro=0
dev.igb.1.enable_lro=0

(changing it using ifconfig -lro and down/up the interfaces didn't help).

With the systctl values set as shown above, we get the expected
performance ob 50-60 MB/s.
We tested this on 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE and 7-STABLE. Right now we're
installing
8-CURRENT on the machine to see if it makes a difference.

It think it would be worthwhile to list this issue in the 7.2 release
errata section (that would've
saved us a significant amount of time :).

Cheers
Michael







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