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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