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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:07:43 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To:        Jason Thomson <jason.thomson@mintel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Conrad Burger <conrad.burger@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?
Message-ID:  <20061023110743.5f9924dc.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
In-Reply-To: <453CAD74.80806@mintel.com>
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In response to Jason Thomson <jason.thomson@mintel.com>:

> Scott Long wrote:
> 
> > I'll cautiously say that the latest set of changes to bce might be
> > interesting for you.  It now survives all of my ttcp and netblast tests
> > in both UDP and TCP.  Please let me know if it makes things better,
> > worse, or no change for you.
> 
> The driver from HEAD (if_bce.c 1.17) is looking much better - thanks
> Scott!
> 
> We couldn't trigger this bug using UDP NFS mounts.
> 
> Neither could we trigger it with multiple simultaneous TCP connections.

I'm seeing similar improvement.  I've been testing the new version since
I came in this morning (About 2.5 hours so far), with no failures.

This is the first version of the driver that has allowed me to actually
complete a buildworld over NFS.

I will continue testing and report again at the end of the day.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.



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