RE: Question about bce driver

Firstly I am not trying to slate David's efforts, however
there are and
have been some big problems with the driver.

As for the IPMI integration, our management controllers are
set to used
the remote access controller NIC (Set as dedicated in the
bios) rather
than share the host nics.

Unfortunately I can not justify spending the time on the driver to
management when the problem can be solved by spending a
relatively small
amount of money on hardware to fix the problem.


I'm sorry I haven't been able to get to the root of your problems
Tom. My biggest challenge is trying to duplicate the a loaded system
which seems to be an important component of the failure you're seeing.
Simply blasting traffic with netperf hasn't been much of a challenge
as it runs over the weekend at line rate without a hiccup. If
anyone has an idea on how to load the system (which means regular
failures by the driver to allocate mbufs) I'd definitely appreciate
hearing it so that I can duplicate Tom's environment. It's certainly
important to me that the driver perform well and I won't stop looking
at the problem if you do decide to jump ship.

Dave

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