State of igb on FreeBSD 8 stable?

[Mike Tancsa]

At 03:19 PM 1/7/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:46:14AM -0800, alan bryan wrote:
> > I did some searching last night and found others using igb on 
> Intel Cards having high interrupts and other strange issues and 
> some comments to the effect that igb is soon going to have a lot of 
> work done to it (I believe Jack Vogel is working on it).  So, can 
> someone give an estimation as to how soon that may be and how soon 
> it may make it to 8-stable?  If it's going to be a while I may look 
> into adding a card using a different driver to test.
> >
>http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/igb/igb.buf.patch6
>
>The patch would fix unresponsive system under high network load as
>well as reducing number of interrupts. The patch also contains
>bus_dma(9) and watchdog timeout fix.

FYI, with the above patch, the driver is quite stable for me on a box 
I use in my lab.

         ---Mike



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