call for sk(4) testers

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 20:02:02 PST 2006


On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:06:48AM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
 > On Thu 12 Jan 06 04:32, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > I'd like to hear any success/failure reports. If you have a NIC that
 > > is supported by sk(4) please give it a try and let me know the
 > > result.
 > 
 > So far so good, running 6.0-RELEASE-p2 on an i386 machine. The sk(4) NIC 
 > is an onboard Marvell 88E8001 Yukon Gigabit Ethernet on an Asus A7N8X-E 
 > Deluxe motherboard:
 > 

Thank you for your time and testing.
Did you notice a increase in throughput?  While testing stock sk(4)
I saw numerous "discard frame w/o leading ethernet header..."
messages under high packet rates. You should not see these messages
anymore in new driver.

 > # uname -a
 > FreeBSD smogmonster.local 6.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Fri 
 > Jan 13 23:13:57 MST 2006     
 > krinklyfig at smogmonster.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL60  i386
 > 
 > # dmesg | grep sk
 > skc0: <Marvell Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 
 > 0xec000000-0xec003fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci1
 > skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7)
 > sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
 > sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:a6:70:56:75
 > 
 > As for dual port, I also have:
 > 
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0
 > e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
 > e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 
 > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
 > 
 > ... although I haven't used that one, yet. I can try it if you like.
 > 

Yes. I'd like to know it has locking bugs on dual port handling.
I'd also like to know sk(4) works on second generation chips from
Marvell.(e.g. Yukon-II XL/EC/FE)

 > - jt

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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