RE: kern/127529: [nfe] [patch] Summary of Nvidia 8200/MCP78S chipset, notably req nfe driver update

2008-09-30 Thread s.c.sprong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Would you try patch at the followng URL? >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/nfe/nfe.mcp77_79.patch Sorry for the late reply, but it took quite some effort to obtain a bootable system with the latest RELENG_7 source. Unfortunately neither the kernel nor world doesn't ful

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-30 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > > > However, the "request/respones" tests are awfull for my notebook > > (test repeated on the notebook for the sake of conviction) : > > Is it possible to rerun these tests with a 7.0 kernel of the same

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: However, the "request/respones" tests are awfull for my notebook (test repeated on the notebook for the sake of conviction) : Is it possible to rerun these tests with a 7.0 kernel of the same general configuration? That would help us determine if

Re: Optimizing for high PPS, Intel NICs

2008-09-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: > I've noticed something strange: the server is bottlenecked with "em1 > taskq" kernel thread taking 100% of a CPU core, while the global CPU > utilization is around 50%, but the client's em0 taskq thread for this > same load is ~~ 10% (with > 30% idle). The client CPU is a bit f