On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
> Why should init have to be rerun just because TSO or CSUM is turned off or
> on,
> its a flag that is checked in the TX routines?
I actually haven't looked in to it yet. But it does annoy the heck out
of me. Nonetheless, it is the current state
Hmmm, after so many years of unloading and reloading drivers, it just
seemed like such
a convenience :) But, instability isn't fun either, I've looked at bxe a
little, such a monstrous
driver :)
I'll give it some thought, and maybe discuss it with David. Thanks.
Cheers,
Jack
On Mon, Apr 11,
Expanding on what mmacy said... I don't think the benefits of "easy
reconfiguration" are worth the headaches you're going to potentially
run into in production.
bxe(4) used to do this, and it caused us a lot of problems (i.e. panics)
at $DAY_JOB. For example, if a lagg was on top of bxe and then y
Why should init have to be rerun just because TSO or CSUM is turned off or
on,
its a flag that is checked in the TX routines?
I am controlling some cases in the ioctl routine so it does the necessary
things,
but does not rerun all of init.
If its a long running system that means its unlikely be g
You do understand that init needs to be run every time interface
settings are changed (TSO / PROMISC / CSUM/ etc)? Reallocating queues
and interrupts every time is fragile (long running systems can run low
on contiguous memory) and, in the common case that you're not actually
changing the number, g
LOL, why does it seem that as soon as I ask the answer hits me in the nose
:)
I found the sysctl_ctx_free call, sorry for the noise
Jack
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
>
> I have a driver design where the queue/ring/irq layout is done in init
> rather
> than in attach,
I have a driver design where the queue/ring/irq layout is done in init
rather
than in attach, allowing easy reconfiguration. What I'm not sure about is
how to handle the sysctl tree during a reinit, I don't see a procedure to
free up things so I can restructure :(
Am I missing something, any point
