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

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Thu Oct 26 00:24:31 UTC 2006


Sam Baskinger wrote:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>>> The driver from HEAD (if_bce.c 1.17) is looking much better - thanks
>>> Scott!
>>>
>>> We couldn't trigger this bug using UDP NFS mounts.
>>>
>>> Neither could we trigger it with multiple simultaneous TCP connections.
>> I'm seeing similar improvement.  I've been testing the new version since
>> I came in this morning (About 2.5 hours so far), with no failures.
> [snip]
> 
> Adding to the excitement, our band of attack squirrels haven't been able
> to bring down our 2950 yet with this one. We are using the if_bce.c from
> the HEAD w/ a small chunk about vlans commented out (for any wondering).
> 
> We're trying outbound UDP_STREAM tests w/ netperf of big and small
> payloads to a machine on the same 100Mb switch. Nothing fancy, but what
> we could once crash in seconds now hangs tough till the end of the test.
> 
> 
> Sam
> 

Excellent.  RELENG_6 was updated with the changes a few days ago.

Scott



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