When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

[Bill Moran]

In response to Bill Moran <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com>:

> In response to Jason Thomson <jason.thomson at mintel.com>:
> 
> > Scott Long wrote:
> >  > Conrad Burger wrote:
> >  >
> >  >> Hi
> >  >>
> >  >> It looks like there is a "new"  version of the bce driver in HEAD.
> >  >> When will it be incorporated into  Releng_6?
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > It will be merged when someone, preferably 2-3 people, tell me that
> >  > the changes in HEAD work for them.  So far, no one has.
> >  >
> >  > Scott
> >  > _______________________________________________
> > 
> > Using the driver from HEAD* in the latest RELENG_6 didn't fix our
> > problems.
> > 
> > We could still trigger the Watchdog timeout when copying a local file to
> > an NFS mounted filesystem (UDP mount, GigE speeds).
> 
> Same here, although it seemed to require a lot more effort to produce the
> problem.
> 
> I see there have been additional updates to the driver in the past 10
> hours.  I'll grab those and try again to see if they help any.

No dice.  I grabbed the latest if_bce.c from cvs HEAD, made the tweaks
(provided by Jason) and rebuilt the kernel.

I was able to trigger the watchdog timeout in less than 5 minutes.  I did
not get a kernel panic, and kernel was built with INVARIANTS and
INVARIANT_SUPPORT.

Any other tests/experiments it would be worthwhile for me to run?

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.