From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 03:32:51 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 17BAD16A492 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:32:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8808043D62 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:32:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9Q3WcO9094773; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:32:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <45402C55.7020109@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:32:37 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Paetzel References: <453FF185.6020601@lumeta.com> <45400032.8070206@samsco.org> <200610252229.51948.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200610252229.51948.josh@tcbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 03:32:51 -0000 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