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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:20:22 +0300
From:      Lenar Tukhvatullin <blackv@netroad.ru>
To:        Laurent Frigault <lfrigault@agneau.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: major bge(4) performance problem
Message-ID:  <20071214092022.GA20666@proxy.netroad.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20071210164719.GA97514@obelix.bergerie.agneau.org>
References:  <20071210164719.GA97514@obelix.bergerie.agneau.org>

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:47:19PM +0100, Laurent Frigault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are experiencing a problem with BCM5721 bge interfaces, which seems to
> be able to receive at almost 1Gbps but can only transmit at < 540Mbps.
> 
> It is the exactly same problem describes at
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-June/014373.html

> Is there any patch/fix available for this driver ?
> 
> Unfortunatly our server has no more slot available so we can't forget the bge
> interfaces and add an em interface.
> 
> I can run tests on a spare server if needed (same hardware).

Hello, can you test patch from Igor Sysoev with recommended tunables?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-November/015951.html

Also comments from Bruce Evans:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-November/015954.html

I have same problem with bge, but currently can't
test this patch on production system.



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