Re: VMware vmxnet2 driver

2013-01-18 Thread Bryan Venteicher
- Original Message - > From: "Ivan Voras" > To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 4:54:12 AM > Subject: Re: VMware vmxnet2 driver > > On 14/01/2013 07:42, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > > > Any testing or performance da

Re: VMware vmxnet2 driver

2013-01-18 Thread Ivan Voras
On 14/01/2013 07:42, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > Any testing or performance data is welcome. For bulk TCP transfers, if_vic > will tend to be faster than em (~1/2 a magnitude) due to TSO, but I don't > think that warrants merging into HEAD yet. Considering that from your description the current sit

VMware vmxnet2 driver

2013-01-13 Thread Bryan Venteicher
Hi, During the previous months, I've been porting OpenBSD's vmxnet driver (if_vic) to FreeBSD [1]. It has reach a doneness that I'd like to draw attention to it for those not subscribed to svn-projects. Most of the original OpenBSD driver - the attach, init, and Tx/Rx paths - have been rewritten.