kern/135222: [igb] low speed routing between two igb interfaces

[Barney Cordoba]

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, ricky.packetlogic at gmail.com <ricky.packetlogic at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: ricky.packetlogic at gmail.com <ricky.packetlogic at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Re: kern/135222: [igb] low speed routing between two igb interfaces
> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:46 AM
> >>Intel 82575EB (and
> friends)  are *the* premier ethernet controllers to 
> >>use with FreeBSD in a server.  igb should be
> the most stable and 
> >>supported driver in the whole kernel.  I can't
> think of any other driver 
> >>and series of controllers I would rather use in a
> server like this.
> 
> Well, the good NIC is no good at all without good driver,
> sadly, it's the case with stock igb driver shipped with FB.
> 
> I hate to say this, but igb driver sucks, there're many
> obvious issue in the code like wrong DMA allocation etc. You
> just have to re-write completely to get igb work, i.e., to
> support msi-x with multiqueue.
> 
> >>If the drivers for these chips are now "bad", this
> is a very sad day for 
> >>people who wanted to use FreeBSD in their dual
> socket servers.
> Either stick to em or re-write the igb driver.
> 
> It's just funny that everybody keeps quite on this, is it
> too difficulty to let people know it's the known issue with
> igb driver?
> 
> Ricky

I thought packetlogic ran on Linux, have you finally abandoned that pig?

Barney