[Bug 193053] ixgbe(4) IXGBE_LEGACY_TX + ALTQ path broken

[Jack Vogel]

LEGACY is not there just because of ALTQ, but rather because there
have been significant customers of Intel that use the driver in OS versions
older than 8 that do not have the required interface.

Jack... going back to my sabbatical now :)



On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Ermal Luçi <eri at freebsd.org> wrote:

> In pfSense the driver has been modified to compile a hybrid mode.
> Meaning have activated both LEGACY and new transmit queue model.
>
> It works correctly and avoids the problems of recompiling with ALTQ.
> It also solves the  problem on having performance impacts when ALTQ is not
> in use.
>
> There are even some drivers in the tree that do this by default already.
>
> From my analysis there should not be an LEGACY define but just mask all of
> this behind ALTQ definition if needed.
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 8:28 PM, <bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193053
> >
> > --- Comment #9 from ncrogers at gmail.com ---
> > Any chance we can get some kind of resolution on this before 10.1? It
> seems
> > like simply upgrading the ixgbe driver with the latest from Intel fixes
> the
> > problem. If that is not possible, the changes in the patch I posted are
> > still
> > working for me in production
> >
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