From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 03:30:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E958616A492 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:30:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A96943D4C for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:30:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-173-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.173.219]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20061026033009m12000bp6ve>; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:30:09 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:29:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <453FF185.6020601@lumeta.com> <45400032.8070206@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <45400032.8070206@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610252229.51948.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Subject: Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:30:12 -0000 On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:24, Scott Long wrote: > Sam Baskinger wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >>> 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. > > > > [snip] > > > > Adding to the excitement, our band of attack squirrels haven't > > been able to bring down our 2950 yet with this one. We are using > > the if_bce.c from the HEAD w/ a small chunk about vlans commented > > out (for any wondering). > > > > We're trying outbound UDP_STREAM tests w/ netperf of big and > > small payloads to a machine on the same 100Mb switch. Nothing > > fancy, but what we could once crash in seconds now hangs tough > > till the end of the test. > > > > > > Sam > > Excellent. RELENG_6 was updated with the changes a few days ago. > > Scott > I tried putting 6.1-R on a PE1950 some time ago and the bce NIC wouldn't work at all. The driver version striing was 0.9.5. I found a newer version 0.9.6 on the web and that has been working just fine for me under pretty heavy loads. Is this new driver you're talking about different than the newer version I found on the web? -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel