Re: em driver problem on vmware

2010-10-30 Thread Jack Vogel
Uh, the emulated device in vmware is an OLD 82543 or something like that right? So, the e1000 driver in 8.1 is split into two parts, em and lem, its lem that has all the old pci support, so if you only pulled if_em then you dont have that code. Sounds like maybe you should just install 8.1 on you

Re: Polling slows down bandwidth

2010-10-30 Thread Paul Thornton
Hi, On 29/10/2010 18:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: >> so using polling on gigabit NICs is a bottle neck? and is cause of low >> performance, is not? > > Simple answer is yes. It should be possible that you could tune polling to > get similar per

How to enable/disable flow control on em(4)?

2010-10-30 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Hellow, How do I enable/disable flow control on em driver just like I do on with igb hw.igb.fc_setting? If it can't be done via settings, is there any change I can on driver code to get this flag off? -- === Eduardo Meyer pessoal: dudu.me...@gmail.com profissional: ddm.farmac...@saude.g

RE: em driver problem on vmware

2010-10-30 Thread Ricky Charlet
Ah, Thanks for the direction. I'll take it as a self project from here. And I'll update this thread with my results hopefully by mid next week. Ricky From: Jack Vogel [mailto:jfvo...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:41 AM To: Juli Mallett Cc: Ricky Charlet; FreeBSD Net Subject: Re:

Re[2]: How to obtain place of low perfomance?

2010-10-30 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hello, Pyun. Вы писали 29 октября 2010 г., 21:17:45: PY> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:20:10AM +0300, ?? ?? wrote: >> Hi, Freebsd-net. >> >> serv1# ifocnfig nfe0 >> nfe0: flags=8943 metric 0 >> mtu 1500 >> options=10b >> ether 00:13:d4:ce:82:16 >> i

Re[2]: Polling slows down bandwidth

2010-10-30 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi, Larry. LB> Also make sure kern.polling.idle_poll is enabled. By default it is LB> disabled. This makes a big difference in polling throughput. enabling that take all CPU time. last pid: 38722; load averages: 1.88, 1.18, 0.85up 1+18:43:28 20:04:54 101 processes: 5 running, 74 slee

Re: Polling slows down bandwidth

2010-10-30 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:32:19PM +0100, Paul Thornton wrote: > I've been doing testing with FreeBSD 8 and em interfaces recently, and > my experience agrees with Chuck's statement - that polling makes things > worse when you use new (anything in the last 2 or 3 years) hardware with > good qualit

Re: kern/121257: [tcp] TSO + natd -> slow outgoing tcp traffic

2010-10-30 Thread Nick Christenson
The following reply was made to PR kern/121257; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nick Christenson To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, vn...@vnovy.net Cc: Subject: Re: kern/121257: [tcp] TSO + natd -> slow outgoing tcp traffic Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:03:13 -0700 (PDT) I notice that not much has