Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:32:37 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6? Message-ID: <45402C55.7020109@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <200610252229.51948.josh@tcbug.org> References: <d0c4d1610610180258l1fb94e96m349022fcb2d0330c@mail.gmail.com> <453FF185.6020601@lumeta.com> <45400032.8070206@samsco.org> <200610252229.51948.josh@tcbug.org>
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Josh Paetzel wrote: > 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? > I believe so, but I haven't checked the Broadcom site recently. Scott
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