rl(4) is not ready for mpsafenet net enough? (silent reboots)

[Freddie Cash]

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:48:17PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:

>> I got silent (without panic) reboots approx. every 4 hours running
>> rl(4) driver. When I turn off mpsafenet with debug.mpsafenet=0
>> reboots are stopped. I have KASSERTS on, but none of them are
>> triggered, just silent hardware reboots. Plain UP machine. No
>> netgraph, ipfw, etc. Any ideas?

> I thought rl cards were inherently MP unsafe because of design
> flaws. Does anyone know it they can be used safely nowadays anyway ?

I've been using rl(4) on 6-CURRENT for about a year now without
problems.  I've had it working with/without polling, and with/without
all the mpsafe* sysctls enabled.  The only problems I've had with it
were the odd oversized frame being dropped requiring a reset of the
interface.  This is on a Toshiba A60 laptop with an onboard RealTek
8139C NIC.  Haven't tried with an SMP system (those all have 3Com or
Intel NICs).

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