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Re: Intel PRO/1000 PT support



On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:16:02AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > I ask because the Broadcom BCM5721 in my new server has given me more
> > trouble in the first 36 hours than the Intel i82547EI in my old
> > server in three years.
> 
> Do you use jumbo frames on SMP?

I don't use jumbo frames, but the machine has a Xeon 3040 CPU with
two cores.

> I wonder if bge(4) should also use mutex(9) around
> jalloc/jfree SLIST ops like nfe(4) etc.

That sounds like a good plan. But it won't fix PR kern/40018 which is one
of my problems.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/


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