Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:27:39 -0000 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: EM and TSO Message-ID: <464B9365.1020808@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0705161334q56b697d3l3c0a0091c84e756b@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a41acea0705161030k40831aa5o168b5bc40fcf3352@mail.gmail.com> <464B4103.4020505@freebsd.org> <2a41acea0705161059g1537c780w500968a82e5fe4f2@mail.gmail.com> <464B5445.1030305@elischer.org> <2a41acea0705161334q56b697d3l3c0a0091c84e756b@mail.gmail.com>
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Jack Vogel wrote: > You mean other than net.inet.tcp.tso that is there now? > > On 5/16/07, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: >> Jack Vogel wrote: >> > On 5/16/07, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Jack Vogel wrote: >> >> > I introduced a change yesterday that limited TSO to PCI Express >> >> > adapters, I did this more for avoidance rather than a bug fix, and >> >> > I'm not 100% sure its the right thing, so I thought I would poll >> >> > everyone, do you have a PCI-X adapter and are using TSO without >> >> > problems and wish to keep the support in? >> >> >> >> I'm using the dual-port PCI-X adapter and would like to keep >> >> using TSO on it. There are a lot of those adapters out there >> >> in servers. TSO is scheduled to be MFC'd really soon now and >> >> not having it work with em(4) on PCI-X would be quite limiting. >> > >> > OK, I'll put it back, you also answered a question I had, namely >> > the MFC of TSO :) I was hoping that got into 6.3. >> > >> > I have another bug I'm working on, will be a delta today or tomorrow >> > and I'll put it back to what it was. >> > >> > Jack >> > _______________________________________________ >> > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> give a sysctl to change the option. ifconfig can be used to ena/dis tso. As I said before just give all the devices capable of tso the capability but only enable it by default on those devices you really know work (e.g. pci-e cards). On other devices users that want to turn it on can do so with ifconfig. Sam
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