status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

Alfred Perlstein alfred at ixsystems.com
Sun Jul 7 18:24:13 UTC 2013


On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> On 07.07.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Andre,
>>
>> Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for 
>> auto-tuning -stable before 9.2?
>
> I simply ran out of time on Friday and MFCing such a big change requires
> more testing.
>
>> I fear (maybe unnecessarily?) that we are about to ship yet another 
>> release that can't do basic
>> 10gigE when sufficient memory exists.
>
> There was some debate with myself whether such a behavior changing MFC
> would be appropriate for a mid-stream stable release.  I guess yes, 
> though
> a number of people who currently set the parameters manually would have
> to remove their tuning settings.
>
>> If you don't have time, then let me know and I'll see what I can do.
>
> Can you help me with with testing?
>
Yes.  Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine 
and give feedback.

-Alfred


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