Re: some questions on virtual machine bridging.

2012-05-30 Thread Andrew Gallatin
On 05/28/12 12:12, Luigi Rizzo wrote: I am doing some experiments with implementing a software bridge between virtual machines, using netmap as the communication API. I have a first prototype up and running and it is quite fast (10 Mpps with 60-byte frames, 4 Mpps with 1500 byte frames, compared

Re: Major performance hit with ToS setting

2012-05-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > On 05/24/12 18:55, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> >> This is,of course, on a 10G interface. On 7.3 there is little > > > Hi Kevin, > > > What you're seeing looks almost like a checksum is bad, or > there is some other packet damage.  Do you see

bce(4) man page updates

2012-05-30 Thread Sean Bruno
Was trolling around inside of bce(4) and the Broadcom docs today and made the following update to the man page. Thoughts? Sean http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/bce_man.txt ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: [please review] TSO mbuf chain length limiting patch

2012-05-30 Thread Andrew Gallatin
On 05/30/12 18:35, Colin Percival wrote: On 05/30/12 08:30, Andrew Gallatin wrote: On 05/30/12 10:59, Colin Percival wrote: The Xen virtual network interface has an issue (ok, really the issue is with the linux back-end, but that's what most people are using) where it can't handle scatter-gathe

Re: [please review] TSO mbuf chain length limiting patch

2012-05-30 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/30/12 08:30, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > On 05/30/12 10:59, Colin Percival wrote: >> The Xen virtual network interface has an issue (ok, really the issue is with >> the linux back-end, but that's what most people are using) where it can't >> handle scatter-gather writes with lots of pieces, aka.

Re: Intel 1G Tx hangs

2012-05-30 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 30. May 2012, at 17:38 , Vijay Singh wrote: >>> Running 20ish guests in KVM with emulated e1000 cards and doing fine. >>> >> lucky you! I've been seeing complete RX failure with multiple emulated >> e1000 in qemu guest, cf kern/168246. It did not seem to have yet >> picked much interest from

Re: if_em and large mtu bug?

2012-05-30 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 30. May 2012, at 11:36 , Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 30.05.2012 17:44, Bruce Cran пишет: >> Are there any known problems with if_em and jumbo packets? I've found >> that my ssh connection breaks (when running dmesg etc.) if I configure >> the mtu to 9216 via rc.conf - but if I initially use a 1

Re: Intel 1G Tx hangs

2012-05-30 Thread Vijay Singh
>> Running 20ish guests in KVM with emulated e1000 cards and doing fine. >> > lucky you! I've been seeing complete RX failure with multiple emulated > e1000 in qemu guest, cf kern/168246. It did not seem to have yet > picked much interest from maintainer... > >  - Arnaud > >> Got a few physical one

Re: Intel 1G Tx hangs

2012-05-30 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 5/24/12 7:19 AM, Vijay Singh wrote: >> Hi, I have been using 8.2 based e1000 drivers and I'm seeing watchdog >> timeouts. I am in the process of updating the drivers to 8-stable, but >> wanted to check here if others have seen anyth

Re: Intel 1G Tx hangs

2012-05-30 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 5/24/12 7:19 AM, Vijay Singh wrote: > Hi, I have been using 8.2 based e1000 drivers and I'm seeing watchdog > timeouts. I am in the process of updating the drivers to 8-stable, but > wanted to check here if others have seen anything like this in the > 8.1/8.2 drivers. Just fyi, I am seeing the T

Re: [please review] TSO mbuf chain length limiting patch

2012-05-30 Thread Jack Vogel
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > On 05/30/12 10:59, Colin Percival wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The Xen virtual network interface has an issue (ok, really the issue is >> with >> the linux back-end, but that's what most people are using) where it can't >> handle scatter-gathe

Re: Intel 1G Tx hangs

2012-05-30 Thread Jack Vogel
LOL, the whole reason for making lem was to have it not change, but someone that intent was lost on people, my failing i guess :) Of course, that didn't mean if its broken... Jack On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:29 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:19:31 am Vijay Singh wrote: > >

Re: Intel 1G Tx hangs

2012-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:19:31 am Vijay Singh wrote: > Hi, I have been using 8.2 based e1000 drivers and I'm seeing watchdog > timeouts. I am in the process of updating the drivers to 8-stable, but > wanted to check here if others have seen anything like this in the > 8.1/8.2 drivers. Just fyi,

Re: [please review] TSO mbuf chain length limiting patch

2012-05-30 Thread Andrew Gallatin
On 05/30/12 10:59, Colin Percival wrote: Hi all, The Xen virtual network interface has an issue (ok, really the issue is with the linux back-end, but that's what most people are using) where it can't handle scatter-gather writes with lots of pieces, aka. long mbuf chains. This currently bites us

[please review] TSO mbuf chain length limiting patch

2012-05-30 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, The Xen virtual network interface has an issue (ok, really the issue is with the linux back-end, but that's what most people are using) where it can't handle scatter-gather writes with lots of pieces, aka. long mbuf chains. This currently bites us hard with TSO enabled, since it produces s

Re: Realtek 8111F

2012-05-30 Thread Kherim
You can install this very easily (P8H77-I, fresh freebsd 9.0 install): 1) download the three driver files: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c?rev=1.222;content-type=text%2Fplain if_re.c http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c?rev=1.

Re: if_em and large mtu bug?

2012-05-30 Thread Eugene Grosbein
30.05.2012 17:44, Bruce Cran пишет: > Are there any known problems with if_em and jumbo packets? I've found > that my ssh connection breaks (when running dmesg etc.) if I configure > the mtu to 9216 via rc.conf - but if I initially use a 1500 byte mtu and > then manually configure it to 9216 the

if_em and large mtu bug?

2012-05-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Are there any known problems with if_em and jumbo packets? I've found that my ssh connection breaks (when running dmesg etc.) if I configure the mtu to 9216 via rc.conf - but if I initially use a 1500 byte mtu and then manually configure it to 9216 then no problems occur. I'm running the lates