Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:32:18 +0200 From: Thomas <freebsdlists@bsdunix.ch> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: em(4) update for 6-STABLE Message-ID: <44D7B162.8050603@bsdunix.ch> In-Reply-To: <20060803100341.GQ96644@FreeBSD.org> References: <20060803100341.GQ96644@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi Gleb Thanks for you work. I will test this on a small freebsd based router with an averrage of 300mb/s in the next few days. Should I test anything special? Where should I see most of the improvements compared to 6.1 Release? (less interrupts without polling?) Cheers, Thomas Gleb Smirnoff schrieb: > Colleagues, > > here is a patch that merges HEAD em(4) driver to RELENG_6. > > First, it significantly improves perfromance of the driver > under high pps load. > Second, it adds support for few new chips. > > You need to update your system to fresh RELENG_6. The driver > will not compile on 6.1-RELEASE. > > Then you need to run the following sequence: > > cd /usr/src/sys/dev/em > fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~glebius/em-6.0.5.RELENG_6.patch.gz > gunzip em-6.0.5.RELENG_6.patch.gz > patch < em-6.0.5.RELENG_6.patch > > and then rebuild your kernel and reboot. > >
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