em network issues

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:57:52PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
K> On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:17:06AM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
K> > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
K> > J> The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a
K> > J> number of tests to reproduce this problem, the machine even shares the em
K> > J> interrupt with usb, and yet so far he has been unsuccessful.
K> > 
K> > I've failed to reproduce on a system where IRQ was shared between em(4)
K> > and fxp(4). I've put traffic on both, but failed to reproduce. Probably
K> > shared IRQ is required, but not sufficient.
K> 
K> Note what I've said a couple of times now...blasting packets out over
K> the shared em doesn't trigger it for me either.  I can trigger it by
K> fetching via FTP from a remote machine over the em.

I suppose the TCP_STREAM test from the netperf is the same as ftp
fetch.

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