State of igb on FreeBSD 8 stable?

[Jack Vogel]

I am incorporating some of Pyun's ideas into my new version, although some
changes I
am unconvinced about... There will always be later :)

Jack


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:

> At 03:19 PM 1/7/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:46:14AM -0800, alan bryan wrote:
>> > I did some searching last night and found others using igb on Intel
>> Cards having high interrupts and other strange issues and some comments to
>> the effect that igb is soon going to have a lot of work done to it (I
>> believe Jack Vogel is working on it).  So, can someone give an estimation as
>> to how soon that may be and how soon it may make it to 8-stable?  If it's
>> going to be a while I may look into adding a card using a different driver
>> to test.
>> >
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/igb/igb.buf.patch6<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/igb/igb.buf.patch6>
>>
>> The patch would fix unresponsive system under high network load as
>> well as reducing number of interrupts. The patch also contains
>> bus_dma(9) and watchdog timeout fix.
>>
>
> FYI, with the above patch, the driver is quite stable for me on a box I use
> in my lab.
>
>        ---Mike
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