em(4) + ALTQ broken

[Nick Rogers]

Anyone else get a chance to review this?

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Nick Rogers <ncrogers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I applied drbr_altq.diff to the e1000 driver (sys/dev/e1000) from HEAD on
> top of 8.0-RELEASE kernel sources. It appears to have fixed the immediate
> problem where queues simply don't work on em interfaces. Thanks a bunch.
>
> I suppose further review and testing by others would be greatly appreciated
> from my point of view. I am trying to decide on a relatively stable 8.0
> kernel with working em(4) + ALTQ to put into production on 100 or so
> installations. Are you guys more comfortable with the HEAD sys/dev/e1000 +
> this patch on top of 8.0-RELEASE, or e1000 from 7.2 on top of 8.0-RELEASE?
> So far I am having good luck with the later. Thanks again for your
> contributions!
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Max Laier <max at love2party.net> wrote:
>
>> Okay ... attached is a patch to fix this for em(4) (and lay the groundwork
>> to
>> fix it for other drbr_* consumer as well).  I have tested it in
>> VirtualBox,
>> but don't have real hardware to check for non-ALTQ performance or other
>> regressions.
>>
>> Test, comments and review appreciated.
>>
>> --
>>   Max
>>
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