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Date:      Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:14:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        pyunyh@gmail.com
Cc:        alc@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: re(4) driver dropping packets when reading NFS files
Message-ID:  <74999496.222044.1289178871881.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20101108002601.GC1279@michelle.cdnetworks.com>

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> 
> If that made difference, all other ethernet controllers would have
> suffered from the similar issues.
> 
Well, some commit done between June 7 and June 15 made a difference,
but I have no idea what or why.

Also, I had a report of very poor read rate from someone using a bge(4)
interface, but I have no reason to believe it is because of the same
issue.

> 
> If you have some spare time please try attach one. I guess fast
> ethernet controller has smaller FIFO size than that of GigE
> controller so it is frequently triggered the issue on fast ethernet
> controller than GigE controllers. I still guess that there are
> cases that an interrupt is not correctly served such that driver
> missed a lot of frames.
> 
Patch didn't help. If anything it degrading things a bit (stats are
attached).

rick

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