From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 31 23:49:02 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 DC5B916A4A7 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:49:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl (smtp-out0.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BEA43D49 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:48:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from [82.171.39.195] (helo=guido.klop.ws) by smtp-out0.tiscali.nl with smtp (Tiscali http://www.tiscali.nl) id 1Gf3Lc-0007d5-QO for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:48:48 +0100 Received: (qmail 1009 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2006 23:48:47 -0000 Received: from localhost.thuis.klop.ws (HELO guido.klop.ws) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.thuis.klop.ws with SMTP; 31 Oct 2006 23:48:47 -0000 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:48:46 +0100 To: "Jack Vogel" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-net From: "Ronald Klop" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2a41acea0610271844o4759424cv35a018ffc0c23373@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0610271844o4759424cv35a018ffc0c23373@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.02 (FreeBSD) Cc: Subject: Re: New em driver 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: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:49:02 -0000 On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:44:37 +0200, Jack Vogel wrote: > After a conference call today, it was decided that a merge of > my Intel driver base and the STABLE code would take place. > > This code undoes the INTR_FAST/taskqueue approach for right > now. Work will continue to get that to work, but the hope is that > this driver will be more stable for the 6.2 release. > > I encourage everyone that has been having issues to pull the > new driver and give us feedback. A few select testers so far > have seen stable performance. I'm running this at my workstation at work. Today it still had DEVICE_POLLING compiled in, but no +polling on the interface. It looks ok. I recompiled without DEVICE_POLLING in the kernel tonight and wil report when I have more experience tomorrow. I didn't really stress-test it, but that wasn't necessary in the past to trigger the watchdog timeouts. A little CPU load did the job in the past. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands