call for sk(4) testers
Joshua Tinnin
krinklyfig at comcast.net
Sat Jan 14 20:43:17 PST 2006
On Sat 14 Jan 06 21:02, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:06:48AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> > On Thu 12 Jan 06 04:32, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'd like to hear any success/failure reports. If you have a NIC
> > > that is supported by sk(4) please give it a try and let me know
> > > the result.
> >
> > So far so good, running 6.0-RELEASE-p2 on an i386 machine. The
> > sk(4) NIC is an onboard Marvell 88E8001 Yukon Gigabit Ethernet on
> > an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard:
>
> Thank you for your time and testing.
> Did you notice a increase in throughput? While testing stock sk(4)
> I saw numerous "discard frame w/o leading ethernet header..."
> messages under high packet rates. You should not see these messages
> anymore in new driver.
To be honest with you I cannot detect an increase in throughput, but I
haven't measured it, so it may be better. I can probably try to test
that some time tomorrow. However, the biggest problem I had with this
NIC and sk(4) is that I would get watchdog timeouts; the NIC would not
go completely down, as it happens with some people, but it would go
down for a few seconds and come back up by itself. That hasn't happened
with your driver, at least not yet. It typically happens at least once
a day, so this is a good sign that it hasn't happened so far.
> > # uname -a
> > FreeBSD smogmonster.local 6.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p2
> > #0: Fri Jan 13 23:13:57 MST 2006
> > krinklyfig at smogmonster.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL60 i386
> >
> > # dmesg | grep sk
> > skc0: <Marvell Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x9000-0x90ff mem
> > 0xec000000-0xec003fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci1
> > skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7)
> > sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
> > sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:a6:70:56:75
> >
> > As for dual port, I also have:
> >
> > miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0
> > e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
> > e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> >
> > ... although I haven't used that one, yet. I can try it if you
> > like.
>
> Yes. I'd like to know it has locking bugs on dual port handling.
> I'd also like to know sk(4) works on second generation chips from
> Marvell.(e.g. Yukon-II XL/EC/FE)
OK, I'll give it a shot ...
- jt
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