Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-19 Thread Kip Macy
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Brian McGinty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day Kip, > >> I'm hoping to get to it some time in August. I'm a bit behind in my >> contracts at the moment. > > A few weeks ago, I did a quick comparison of the driver between > FreeBSD and Linux, and found quite a few

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-19 Thread Brian McGinty
G'day Kip, > I'm hoping to get to it some time in August. I'm a bit behind in my > contracts at the moment. A few weeks ago, I did a quick comparison of the driver between FreeBSD and Linux, and found quite a few differences that's worth pulling over. The guy from Intel working on FreeBSD, Jack?

Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp]

2008-07-19 Thread Kip Macy
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Brian McGinty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Brian >> I very much doubt that this is ceteris paribus. This is 384 random IPs >> -> 384 random IP addresses with a flow lookup for each packet. Also, >> I've read through igb on Linux - it has a lot of optimizations

Re: nfe driver

2008-07-19 Thread Brad
On Saturday 19 July 2008 14:44:02 Adam Stylinski wrote: > The controller definitely supports jumbo frames. What proof do you have of this? > I guess another question to ask would be if the newer kernel sources in > freebsd-stable have support for jumbo frames on the MCP67 in the nfe > driver. No

nfe driver

2008-07-19 Thread Adam Stylinski
I have an mcp67 nforce networking controller using the nfe driver. I currently cannot set my MTU to anything higher than 1500. The controller definitely supports jumbo frames. Is there any hope of the BSD driver supporting it? I'm more than willing to test things out. I guess another question

Re: kern/125442: [carp][lagg] CARP combined with LAGG causes system panic - 7.0/amd64

2008-07-19 Thread gonzo
Synopsis: [carp][lagg] CARP combined with LAGG causes system panic - 7.0/amd64 State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: gonzo State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 19 13:23:55 UTC 2008 State-Changed-Why: I'll take it. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-net->gonzo Responsible-Changed-By: