When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

[Scott Long]

Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Jason Thomson <jason.thomson at mintel.com>:
> 
>> Scott Long wrote:
>>  > Conrad Burger wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> Hi
>>  >>
>>  >> It looks like there is a "new"  version of the bce driver in HEAD.
>>  >> When will it be incorporated into  Releng_6?
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > It will be merged when someone, preferably 2-3 people, tell me that
>>  > the changes in HEAD work for them.  So far, no one has.
>>  >
>>  > Scott
>>  > _______________________________________________
>>
>> Using the driver from HEAD* in the latest RELENG_6 didn't fix our
>> problems.
>>
>> We could still trigger the Watchdog timeout when copying a local file to
>> an NFS mounted filesystem (UDP mount, GigE speeds).
> 
> Same here, although it seemed to require a lot more effort to produce the
> problem.
> 
> I see there have been additional updates to the driver in the past 10
> hours.  I'll grab those and try again to see if they help any.
> 

I'll cautiously say that the latest set of changes to bce might be
interesting for you.  It now survives all of my ttcp and netblast tests
in both UDP and TCP.  Please let me know if it makes things better,
worse, or no change for you.


Scott