Re: Question regarding netgraph and threading

2009-12-01 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:08 PM 12/1/2009, Julian Elischer wrote: in the netgraph code I see: /* Autoconfigure number of threads. */ if (numthreads <= 0) numthreads = mp_ncpus; Ah Found this in /sys/netgraph/ng_base.c. Yes, it does seem to have a pool o

Re: Question regarding netgraph and threading

2009-12-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Brett Glass wrote: At 01:47 PM 12/1/2009, Julian Elischer wrote: well, not all work is done by that thread. It is the backup-doer-of-things, but many netgraph operations are done in the context of a caller such as teh user of a socket. In the case of a PPTP session, the data (ignoring the con

Re: Question regarding netgraph and threading

2009-12-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Brett Glass wrote: At 01:47 PM 12/1/2009, Julian Elischer wrote: well, not all work is done by that thread. It is the backup-doer-of-things, but many netgraph operations are done in the context of a caller such as teh user of a socket. In the case of a PPTP session, the data (ignoring the con

Re: Question regarding netgraph and threading

2009-12-01 Thread Brett Glass
At 01:47 PM 12/1/2009, Julian Elischer wrote: well, not all work is done by that thread. It is the backup-doer-of-things, but many netgraph operations are done in the context of a caller such as teh user of a socket. In the case of a PPTP session, the data (ignoring the control session for the

[patch] for missing TACACS+ accounting

2009-12-01 Thread Michael Pounov
Hi all, I am sending a patch that adds support for TACACS+ accounting to libtacplus(3). Comments welcome. -- M.Punov - AITNET - Sofia/Bulgaria - Software & Network Solutions (+359) 888 73 73 58;(+359) 2 402 4000 Index: libtacplus.3 ==

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-12-01 Thread David Christensen
> > Does the attached patch make a difference for you? > > This patch seems to do the trick, on at least one of the > R610's that we have. > > Just did cold boot, 5 warm boots, cold boot, 5 warm boots and > have not had any issues. > Thanks for testing. I want to pass the changes by a couple o

Re: Question regarding netgraph and threading

2009-12-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Brett Glass wrote: All: I have several large PPTP servers which are currently using ppp(8) and PoPTop (a userland PPTP server daemon which is, unfortunately, GPLed). They're having trouble under heavy loads, and so I'd like to switch to mpd5. However, even though mpd5 handles network connecti

Question regarding netgraph and threading

2009-12-01 Thread Brett Glass
All: I have several large PPTP servers which are currently using ppp(8) and PoPTop (a userland PPTP server daemon which is, unfortunately, GPLed). They're having trouble under heavy loads, and so I'd like to switch to mpd5. However, even though mpd5 handles network connections in the kernel,

Re: bge driver and MSI

2009-12-01 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:31:37PM -0200, Rafael Ganascim wrote: > Hi list, > > Can the bge driver use more than one MSI message? If possible, what the > advantage of this on a SMP system (better CPU distribution on interrupts?)? > > I have an Broadcom BCM5703X, with 8 MSI messages: > -- > b...@p

bge driver and MSI

2009-12-01 Thread Rafael Ganascim
Hi list, Can the bge driver use more than one MSI message? If possible, what the advantage of this on a SMP system (better CPU distribution on interrupts?)? I have an Broadcom BCM5703X, with 8 MSI messages: -- b...@pci0:1:2:0:class=0x02 card=0x00cb0e11 chip=0x16a714e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00

Re: wlan adhoc mode crash

2009-12-01 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 12/1/09, John Hay wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the best list. > > I'm trying to get our Avila (arm) boards with atheros wireless cards > upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0. We use adhoc mode and I get a panic in > ieee80211_getcapinfo() because the chan pointer is 0x which seems > to mean

Re: kern/140684: [bce] Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T - fail after soft reboot

2009-12-01 Thread Miroslav Lachman
The following reply was made to PR kern/140684; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, mksm...@adhost.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/140684: [bce] Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T - fail after soft reboot Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:

Re: kern/123559: [iwi] iwi periodically disassociates/associates [regression]

2009-12-01 Thread ocean
The following reply was made to PR kern/123559; it has been noted by GNATS. From: ocean To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, uya...@gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/123559: [iwi] iwi periodically disassociates/associates [regression] Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:53:57 +0100 it's not a fix, but you coul

wlan adhoc mode crash

2009-12-01 Thread John Hay
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the best list. I'm trying to get our Avila (arm) boards with atheros wireless cards upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0. We use adhoc mode and I get a panic in ieee80211_getcapinfo() because the chan pointer is 0x which seems to mean IEEE80211_CHAN_ANY in other places. So the