igb and ALTQ in 9.1-rc3

[Nick Rogers]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 03:31:19PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote:
>> J> UH, maybe asking the owner of the driver would help :)
>> J>
>> J> ... and no, I've never been aware of doing anything to stop supporting
>> altq
>> J> so you wouldn't see any commits. If there's something in the altq code
>> or
>> J> support (which I have nothing to do with) that caused this no-one
>> informed
>> J> me.
>>
>> Switching from if_start to if_transmit effectively disables ALTQ support.
>>
>> AFAIR, there is some magic implemented in other drivers that makes them
>> modern (that means using if_transmit), but still capable to switch to
>> queueing
>> mode if SIOCADDALTQ was casted upon them.
>>
>>
> Oh, hmmm, I'll look into the matter after my vacation.
>
> Jack

Has there been any progress on resolving this issue? I recently ran
into this problem upgrading my servers from 8.3 to 9.1-RELEASE and am
wondering what the latest recommendation is. I've used ALTQ and igb
successfully for years and it is unfortunate it no longer works.
Appreciate any advice.

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