[ATA] and re(4) stability issues

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:13:09PM +0100, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
 > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:50:21AM +0100, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
 > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:00:56PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > > > 
 > > > I've reverted r185756 which caused GMII access issues on some
 > > > controllers. If you are brave enough to try beta code, you can
 > > > get latest re(4) in the following URL. Note, I don't have PCIe
 > > > based RealTek controllers so the code was not tested at all.
 > > > 
 > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_re.c
 > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_rlreg.h
 > > 
 > > I've recompiled the kernel with the first file in sys/dev/re/
 > > and the second one in sys/pci/. I'm still testing with MSI enabled.
 > > 
 > > So far tried rebooting using nextboot(8) (just in case i lost the
 > > network card i could boot again) and the card seems to work
 > > but i'll continue stress testing the machine with stress + dd +
 > > iperf and see if i can take it down. I'll let you know how it goes.
 > 
 > After a day of stress testing the machine haven't got errors, interrupt
 > storms or interface up/down problems. Everything seems fine.
 > I'll continue stress testing the machine during the weekend, but
 > i would say that this time it's fixed.
 > 

Thanks for testing!

 > Seems lately there have been a lot of testing of this driver. Is
 > there any chance of it being on 7.1 or being MFCed after the release
 > to RELENG_7?
 > 

It's too early to say MFC but I think MFC would be done after
releasing 7.1-RELEASE if all goes well.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon