On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: > LOL, the old adage is true, you just can't please all the people... :) > > The way the code now is it assigns a default, but you could still have > a loader entry that would change it for all adapters if you wanted to, > but ok, if you prefer the older for this. What other globals do you > think should be retained? >
I'd like to be able to set the global default for flow control. I'd also appreciate a global default for disabling TCP checksum offload, but that's above and beyond what we had before :-) > Jack > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:07 AM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Monday, June 20, 2011 6:59:29 pm Jack F Vogel wrote: > > Author: jfv > > Date: Mon Jun 20 22:59:29 2011 > > New Revision: 223350 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/223350 > > > > Log: > > Eliminate some global tuneables in favor of adapter-specific, > > particular flow control and dma coalesce. Also improve the > > sysctl operation on those too. > > > > Add IPv6 detection in the ioctl code, this was done for > > ixgbe first, carrying that over. > > > > Add resource ability to disable particular adapter. > > > > Add HW TSO capability so vlans can make use of TSO > > The tunables are useful for setting defaults for all interfaces. :( > > I use hw.igb.rx_processing_limit=-1 in loader.conf at work so that we can > ensure that all igb interfaces in a given system have that setting. This is > more scalable than having to set the right number of entries in > /etc/sysctl.conf.local on different machines, etc, without spamming the > console during boot with warnings about tweaking non-existing sysctls, etc. > > Please consider keeping the tunables where the tunables are used to set > default settings for all adapters from the loader but per-device sysctls are > used post-boot to provide runtime, per-device settings. > > -- > John Baldwin > -------- This message has been scanned by ComplianceSafe, powered by Palisade's PacketSure. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
