em drv troubles

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:12:31 -0800
> From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel at gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> On Dec 20, 2007 3:01 AM, JoaoBR <joao at matik.com.br> wrote:
> >
> > I believe the em man page needs a revision, the tunable sections referres to
> > hw.em. and should be dev.em.
> >
> > hw.em.tx_int.delay defaults to 64 according to the man page but my server show
> > 66 as for other values too:
> >
> > dev.em.1.tx_int_delay: 66
> > dev.em.1.rx_abs_int_delay: 66
> > dev.em.1.tx_abs_int_delay: 66
> >
> > what is correct and how much does it matter?
> 
> Yes, the man page is way out of date, I will try and get
> our docs group to make up something soon.

Ahh! This explains some of the Intel documentation I've read. They just
make it up. 

(Just kidding and Season's Greetings!)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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