From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 10:22:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0175216A4BF; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1E143F93; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:22:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158])h7QHKjxk027067; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:20:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) h7QHMHff050550; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:22:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Duncan Barclay In-Reply-To: <000501c36b4b$57ba6b20$4bc8a8c0@orac> References: <000501c36b4b$57ba6b20$4bc8a8c0@orac> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-abgu5MK9CbY3pDH7xJ92" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1061918569.67559.11.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:22:49 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New BETA of Broadcom 440x chipset driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:22:55 -0000 --=-abgu5MK9CbY3pDH7xJ92 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 16:56, Duncan Barclay wrote: > Hi >=20 > I think I have fixed the RX packet loss and memory corruption problems wi= th > the previous version of the driver. Please try the code at >=20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bcm-0308252140.tar.gz >=20 > I have manged to get full link speed ftping large files in both direction= . > Also, I have successfully populated an empty /usr/src tree with cvsup whi= lst > up and downloading 50MB files. This is _much_ nicer so far. My interactive sessions (i.e. SSH, checking mail, logging into AIM, etc.) are all much quicker and much more reliable. >=20 > Would people please try this and feed back good and bad experiences. I wo= uld > be interested if people could run their favorite net bench marks with the > hw.bcm_rx_quick sysctl set to 1 (default) and 0. Setting to zero forces t= he > driver to copy data from the NIC, one causes the driver to do a small 44 > byte memory shuffle. Whilst wire speed should not differ, time spent in t= he > interrupt routine should be less with the sysctl set to 1. I'll try with 0 later, but 1 seems pretty good. I haven't done a big transfer yet, though. >=20 > Please do not use on a "valuable" system. The problem that this release > tries to fix sometimes resulted in kernel memory corruption. :-) Too late. My laptop is pretty important, but it's the only machine I have that can use this driver. Joe >=20 > All the best >=20 > Duncan >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-abgu5MK9CbY3pDH7xJ92 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/S5dpb2iPiv4Uz4cRAnnmAKCHBs8gBSOVCjMtM9AxHfcxkG7oBgCfRQrW Lx3ZwloDMZGelBoQgZ7F5H0= =gpup -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-abgu5MK9CbY3pDH7xJ92--