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
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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