Call for bge(4) testers

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sat Nov 14 10:21:52 UTC 2009


Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had been working on fixing bus_dma(9) bugs and adding TSO
> capability to bge(4). Now TSO is supported for BCM5755 or newer
> controllers. Actually some pre-BCM5755 controllers also support
> TSO with the help of special firmware but the license issue and
> lower performance of firmware based TSO as well as TSO bug I
> intentionally excluded TSO support for pre-BCM5755 controllers.

> I'm interesting in performance changes before/after the diff and
> any regressions from the diff. Please test I'll commit the diff
> next week unless I get regressions.

No regressions noticed so far with:

bge0 at pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x20d517aa chip=0x169314e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'Ethernet Controller Broadcom Netlink Gigabit (BCM5787A)'

Fabian
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