svn: stable/7/sys: conf dev/bce

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 1 04:30:56 UTC 2009


Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Tom Judge wrote:
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>> Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>> Is the option related to Jumbo Frames in any way? If not, IMHO the name
>>> should be changed to avoid any confusion.
>>
>> The bug is easier to reproduce when jumbo frames are turned on however
>> we have seen it with normal frames also.
> 
> Can we change the name then? We've seen the similar issue without the 
> jumbo frames, which made me wonder. Also, perhaps we should make it a 
> default and/or tunable. Having user to recompile kernel just to save 20 
> bytes of text segment is not very practical these days.

Here is the patch:

http://sobomax.sippysoft.com/~sobomax/bce.diff

Please let me know if you have any objection to it, otherwise I will 
check it in.

-Maxim


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