Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> * i'd like to see more public tunables. E.g. the lance_mode, ipg0, >>> ipg1, ipg2 values exposed by all NSN drivers. >>> >> I wonder if we could add more public properties in 2nd phase's scope. >> In the first stage, it focuses on bge/e1000g/nge, which don't have >> those tunables supported yet. It will be a problem for us to test >> those "stub" func then. > > You might also look at eri, which is now a GLDv3 driver. :-) I'd not > worry too much about nge, it has other issues. bge and e1000g are > good candidates though. > For IPG tunables, I think they are useful in reducing collision rate on a half-duplex media. But with 1000M links and above, they are seldom works under half-duplex mode, unless a broken cable or so. So it seems to me these parameters are not as useful today as they were in the past.
I searched bug's database and found the latest bug regarding IPG was quite a long time ago(not s10 days even), which makes me think this feature is not heavily used by customer already. Please advice. Thanks, Raymond
