Re: kern/118975: [bge] [patch] Broadcom 5906 not handled by FreeBSD

2008-01-02 Thread Benjamin Close
The following reply was made to PR kern/118975; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Benjamin Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: kern/118975: [bge] [patch] Broadcom 5906 not handled by FreeBSD Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:42:34 +1030 The -Current port

Re: if_ral regression

2008-01-02 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Jan 1, 2008 9:32 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sepherosa Ziehau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't whether following thingies will fix your problem: > > [...] > > Can you provide a diff? http://people.freebsd.org/~sephe/rt2560_test.diff Hope it will have some effe

Re: if_ral regression

2008-01-02 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Jan 2, 2008 10:38 AM, Weongyo Jeong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Even with these in place in dfly, I still have strange TX performance > > regression in sta mode (drop from 20Mb/s to 3Mb/s under very well > > condition) on certain hardwares after 20sec~30sec TCP_STREAM netperf > > testing; d

Re: bikeshed for all!

2008-01-02 Thread Randall Stewart
Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071212 15:13] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: try using "instance". "Oh I'm going to use the FOO routing instance." what do Juniper call it? "Instance" and "vrf". VRF is the same thing we call it at Cisco :-) R -- Randall

ath0 Ierrs

2008-01-02 Thread Randy Bush
i seem to be loggin massive errors on an ath in hostap mode with only two wireless clients. mtu is set low as the tun0 ppoe over ntt B Flets on vr0 recommends it. wireless on the two clients is set to mtu of 1454 too. seeking pointers on how to debug. randy --- # netstat -i NameMtu Networ

Re: if_ral regression

2008-01-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Sepherosa Ziehau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://people.freebsd.org/~sephe/rt2560_test.diff Thank you, I'll try that. Could you explain what the RT2560_BBP_BUSY loop is about? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-net@freeb

Re: if_ral regression

2008-01-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Sepherosa Ziehau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://people.freebsd.org/~sephe/rt2560_test.diff > > Hope it will have some effect. I built a new kernel with the patch applied, and it seems to help, though it's a bit early to say for sure. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Routing SMP benefit

2008-01-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Tiffany Snyder wrote: Hi Andre, are those numbers for small (64 bytes) packets? Good job on pushing the base numbers higher on the same HW. Yes, 64 bytes. Haven't measured lately, but I assume PCI-E hardware instead of PCI-X could push quite some more. What piqued my attentio

Re: Routing SMP benefit

2008-01-02 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Andre Oppermann wrote: So far the PPS rate limit has primarily been the cache miss penalties on the packet access. Multiple CPUs can help here of course for bi- directional traffic. Hardware based packet header cache prefetching as done by some embedded MIPS based network processors at least do

Re: Routing SMP benefit

2008-01-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Andre Oppermann wrote: So far the PPS rate limit has primarily been the cache miss penalties on the packet access. Multiple CPUs can help here of course for bi- directional traffic. Hardware based packet header cache prefetching as done by some embedded MIPS based netwo

Re: if_ral regression

2008-01-02 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Jan 3, 2008 12:16 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sepherosa Ziehau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~sephe/rt2560_test.diff > > Thank you, I'll try that. > > Could you explain what the RT2560_BBP_BUSY loop is about? bbp read involves one write to

unp_connect() locking problems with early returns

2008-01-02 Thread James Juran
There are two early returns in unp_connect() that need to re-acquire the UNP global lock before returning. This program will trigger a panic on a WITNESS-enabled system. I tested on the December snapshot of CURRENT-8.0, but the same problem occurs in RELENG_7. #include #include #include #incl