Re: nve related LOR triggered by lots of small packets, and a hard hang

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0800
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:32:40PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 10:53, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:
> > Hello John!
> > 
> > Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:10:12AM -0500 you wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Have you tried using nfe(4)? :)
> > 
> > Now I have, and it works just fine, thanks (I somehow thought nfe was
> > specific to some platform). Why isn't it the default? Smaller range of
> > hardware supported?
> 
> It's just newer.  I think perhaps current_at_ should switch to nfe(4) rather
> than nve(4) by default.  David, any objections to that?

nfe(4) is not ready - I recently got two new machines that nve(4) works
fine on and nfe(4) is totally broken on.

I had hoped to make nfe(4) the default already and MFC it to RELENG_6,
but I think that will only bring PR's to us.

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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Thu Jan 18 2007 - 17:22:09 UTC

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