On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 4:39 AM Hrvoje Popovski <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17.9.2018. 22:32, sven falempin wrote:
> > Dear Tech reader,
> >
> > I am recently working on  Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3758  intel devices.
> > SFP Intel card are not working in 6.3/current openBSD base
> >
> > I did patch intel driver reading netbsd, freebsd and intel code of ixgbe
> > driver.
> >
> > I am now transferring data between two openBSD at ~1.50 Gb/s
> > for more than 48 hours ( been looping all week end )
> >
> > First, i d like to find other user with ix card to check for regression !
> > Secondly, can i get some feedback on how to test 10Gb /s transfer
> >  - i usually download ramfs file through nginx or use iperf .
> > Third, how can i get a patch accepted into base : ie, how do i clean this
> > work ?
>
> Hi,
>
> user here. Thank you for doing this. I think that your primary concern
> at this point should be stability of this driver.
> While transferring data over ix interfaces you could try shutting down
> interfaces and bring them up. maybe something like this in loop:
>
> ifconfig ix0 down && ifconfig ix0 up && ifconfig ifconfig ix1 down &&
> ifconfig ix1 up && ifconfig ix0 down && ifconfig ix1 down && sh netstart
>
>
that is working okay, and unplugging too


>
> if you have some sx or lx sfp+ modules insert/remove them in ix
> interfaces and stuff link that.
>

I only have one type of sfp+ with me


>
> regarding performance testing if you have other box with 10G interfaces
> you could directly connect these boxes and generate lots of traffic over
> your driver and doing all that crazy stuff..
>
>
i only have openbsd denverton hardware and it s kinda hard to sustain 10Gb
of traffic


I had a request to extract the github patch file directly inside the email,
i m thinking the 17 K lines would not make sense inside the mail.

Is there someone with ixgbe hardware ( especially with a fan ? )

Best.

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