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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:13:41 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: nfe: can not cvs sources anymore!
Message-ID:  <20061119201341.GA1381@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4560A1A5.4050500@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <4560657A.9000002@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20061119161749.GB31926@rambler-co.ru> <4560A1A5.4050500@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:25:41PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:08:58PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> >  =20
> >> Hello.
> >> Using these two sources for getting nfe() driver support for my FreeBSD
> >> 6.2-BETA/AMD64 box was pretty convenient in the past weeks due to my b=
ig
> >> interrupt problems using the nve() driver.
> >> But with yesterday, I can't get the sources anymore. nfe() isn't yet a
> >> part of the 6.2 BETA, that's what I looked first for, so can anybody
> >> help me out? Is nfe() a part of 6.2-REL in the near future or are there
> >> other reasons stop spreading the sources via that cvs source?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help in advance,
> >>
> >>    =20
> > Did you try the version at
> > http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
> > ?  I use it and except for some peer-to-peer gigabit problems I
> > didn't notice any other bad signs.  It's far more stable that
> > what we have now in the CVS tree.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  =20
> Thank you for the link.
> No, I did not try this link since I thought the CVS tree's version was
> the stabelst version we have. I find it convenient by pushing it via net
> using cvs just after I upgraded my CVS tree of the sources for the
> operating system. I will keep this link in mind.
> Is there a date we can this driver expect in FreeBSD 6.2? Or is the
> driver more subject to be merged in 6.2-STABLE and for 6.3? nve() isn't
> suitable, neither with SCHED_ULE (which I use now again) and with
> SCHED_4BSD, because on my hardware platform the interrupt generation is
> much higher than that of the nfe() driver - and due to this massive
> interrupts useless for me.

Please remember to turn off SCHED_ULE before submitting any and all
future bug reports, thanks :-)

Kris

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