igb and ALTQ in 9.1-rc3

[Barney Cordoba]

--- On Fri, 3/29/13, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: igb and ALTQ in 9.1-rc3
> To: "Nick Rogers" <ncrogers at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Pieper, Jeffrey E" <jeffrey.e.pieper at intel.com>, "freebsd-net at freebsd.org" <freebsd-net at freebsd.org>, "Clement Hermann (nodens)" <nodens2099 at gmail.com>, "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, March 29, 2013, 1:10 PM
> On 29 March 2013 10:04, Nick Rogers
> <ncrogers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Multiqueue or not, I would appreciate any help with
> this thread's
> > original issue. Whether or not its the ideal thing to
> do, I cannot
> > simply just replace the NICs with an em(4) variant, as
> I have hundreds
> > of customers/systems already in production running 8.3
> and relying on
> > the igb driver + ALTQ. I need to be able to upgrade
> these systems to
> > 9.1 without making hardware changes.
> >
> >
> If it's that critical, have you thought about contracting
> out that task to
> a developer?

You have 100s of systems/customers using 1990s-class traffic shaping
and you have no programmer on staff with the skills to patch and test
an ethernet driver?

the igb driver has always sucked rocks, why did you use them in the first
place. Or did they just happen to be on the MB you use?

BC