12.2-RC1: RTL8251/8153 1000BASE-T seemingly stuck at 100Mbps

[sreehari]

if there is more rigorous testing of the new code would it be possible for
the commit to make it into 12.2?

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 23:56 sreehari <sreeharisreedev1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see. Since I have the hardware and freebsd head seems broken on my
> laptop, I'll try compiling stable/12 with the ure patch from head within
> the next few days. I have gigabit internet and other machines to test the
> ethernet with the full 1000Mbps. Are there any actions you suggest I take
> to benchmark or stress test the hardware or make sure everything is working
> properly?
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 23:36 John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
>
>> Kurt Jaeger wrote this message on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 06:36 +0200:
>> > > sreehari wrote this message on Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 21:02 -0700:
>> > > > I have a USB C hub that supports gigabit ethernet under any other
>> OS,
>> > > > but under FreeBSD it seems to detect it properly, but I never get
>> > > > speeds exceeding 100Mbps transfer rate on the whole thing. Is this a
>> > > > known issue? Also is there any way to check what the perceived link
>> > > > speed is? I've attached dmesg.boot if that helps.
>> > >
>> > > This is a known issue w/ the ure driver on FreeBSD.  This has been
>> > > fixed in -current, and in a few months I'll look at merging it to
>> > > stable/12, but it definitly will not make the 12.2 release:
>> > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25809
>> >
>> > The changes seem to be limited to the driver itself -- is some
>> > structural change in 13 stopping a merge to 12.2 ?
>>
>> The issue is that IMO, it's too close to the release of 12.2.  It only
>> recently got committed to 13, and so hasn't had enough time to be tested
>> in more environments than mine.  There have been a few others that have
>> tested it.
>>
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>>
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