Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:35:36 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: ke han <ke.han@redstarling.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em driver testing Message-ID: <454FAAA8.1040500@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <68011C68-0962-4946-88E1-F36EE7C707DA@redstarling.com> References: <68011C68-0962-4946-88E1-F36EE7C707DA@redstarling.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig373E75F640CBF41F51989FBC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, ke han wrote: > According to the 6.2-beta3 announcemetn, there are improvements to =20 > the em driver. >=20 > "The most important of the things that have been worked on is the > driver for em(4). " >=20 > I have a Sun X4100 which uses Intel ethernet. I would like to =20 > install amd64 6.2beta3 on this server and put it through some tests. > But I have no idea what tests to run or how to run them. > Can someone provide some pointers? I am happy to post my findings. There were a number of problems in em(4) that appeared post-6.1. A new version of the em(4) driver was merged to the RELENG_6 branch just prior to 6.2-BETA3. That version is better, but still has some unresolved issues (problems have been reported with jumbo frames and with watchdog timeouts). There's a new patch by jfv@ in an email a few days ago (with subject "New em patch for 6.2 BETA 3") that might fix these problems. It might be worthwhile to try this out. Basically, just look around the archives of stable@ to see discussions of the em driver over the past month or so. I believe that a number of prior problems were uncovered when people just tried to push a lot of traffic through the interface. Bruce. --------------enig373E75F640CBF41F51989FBC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFT6qs2MoxcVugUsMRAkq6AJ0f1HbPY7BfIUFe+j5zBeKukN64gwCgmSKW VPNt12rzuIRTGFT6J8rO+Bk= =OBBa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig373E75F640CBF41F51989FBC--
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