svn commit: r200641 - head/share/man/man4
Pyun YongHyeon
yongari at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 17 18:37:11 UTC 2009
Author: yongari
Date: Thu Dec 17 18:37:11 2009
New Revision: 200641
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/200641
Log:
Document newly added loader tunable and sysctl variables.
o hw.vge.msi_disable
o dev.vge.%d.int_holdoff
o dev.vge.%d.rx_coal_pkt
o dev.vge.%d.tx_coal_pkt
Modified:
head/share/man/man4/vge.4
Modified: head/share/man/man4/vge.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/vge.4 Thu Dec 17 18:17:46 2009 (r200640)
+++ head/share/man/man4/vge.4 Thu Dec 17 18:37:11 2009 (r200641)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd February 21, 2007
+.Dd December 17, 2009
.Dt VGE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -173,6 +173,38 @@ ZyXEL GN650-T 64-bit PCI Gigabit Etherne
.It
ZyXEL GN670-T 32-bit PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (ZX1702)
.El
+.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
+Tunables can be set at the
+.Xr loader 8
+prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
+.Xr loader.conf 5 .
+.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
+.It Va hw.vge.msi_disable
+This tunable disables MSI support on the Ethernet hardware.
+The default value is 0.
+.El
+.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
+The following variables are available as both
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variables and
+.Xr loader 8
+tunables:
+.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
+.It Va dev.vge.%d.int_holdoff
+Maximum number of time to delay interrupts.
+The valid range is 0 to 5100 in units of 1us, the default is
+150 (150us).
+The resolution of of timer is about 20us so finer tuning than
+20us wouldn't be available.
+The interface should be brought down and up again before a change
+takes effect.
+.It Va dev.vge.%d.rx_coal_pkt
+Maximum number of packets to fire Rx completion interrupt.
+The valid range is 1 to 255, the default is 64.
+.It Va dev.vge.%d.tx_coal_pkt
+Maximum number of packets to fire Tx completion interrupt.
+The valid range is 1 to 255, the default is 128.
+.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "vge%d: couldn't map memory"
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