Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-09-02 Thread Bryan Venteicher
- Original Message - - Original Message - Bezüglich Bryan Venteicher's Nachricht vom 27.08.2013 06:18 (localtime): ... snip The intr usage is higher than the other drivers you compared against because if_vmx does the off-level processing in ithreads where as the

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-27 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Bryan Venteicher's Nachricht vom 27.08.2013 06:18 (localtime): ... It seems if_vmx doesn't support jumbo frames. If I set mtu 9000, I get »vmx0: cannot populate Rx queue 0«, I have no problems using jumbo frames with vmxnet3. This could fail for two reasons - could not allocate

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-27 Thread Bryan Venteicher
- Original Message - Bezüglich Bryan Venteicher's Nachricht vom 27.08.2013 06:18 (localtime): ... It seems if_vmx doesn't support jumbo frames. If I set mtu 9000, I get »vmx0: cannot populate Rx queue 0«, I have no problems using jumbo frames with vmxnet3. This could fail

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-26 Thread Bryan Venteicher
- Original Message - Bezüglich Bryan Venteicher's Nachricht vom 05.08.2013 02:12 (localtime): Hi, I've ported the OpenBSD vmxnet3 ethernet driver to FreeBSD. I did a lot of cleanup, bug fixes, new features, etc (+2000 new lines) along the way so there is not much of a

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-21 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Bryan Venteicher's Nachricht vom 05.08.2013 02:12 (localtime): Hi, I've ported the OpenBSD vmxnet3 ethernet driver to FreeBSD. I did a lot of cleanup, bug fixes, new features, etc (+2000 new lines) along the way so there is not much of a resemblance left. The driver is in good

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/6/13 6:52 AM, Bryan Venteicher wrote: - Original Message - I have ~100 FreeBSD 8/9 VMs in my vSphere 5.1 environment, all using the VMware tools package from VMware. Everything has been running great for years. (we skipped vSphere 5.0). Why should I use this vmxnet driver instead

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-07 Thread Bryan Venteicher
- Original Message - it'd be nice if we could get vmware to just support the drivers in tree.. by which I mean, just submit patches.. why do they need to have it out of tree? I agree. But they are all unfriendly licensed. The FF had a discussion to get them relicensed to something

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-06 Thread Bryan Venteicher
- Original Message - Perhaps not, but they do support FreeBSD. I've started several support cases with FreeBSD-specific problems and they've fixed all so far. Yes, it is not a blackhole of support. At $JOB, we got caught by the FreeBSD specific issue of the busted timer that was

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-06 Thread Joel Dahl
6 aug 2013 kl. 08:05 skrev Bryan Venteicher bry...@daemoninthecloset.org: - Original Message - Perhaps not, but they do support FreeBSD. I've started several support cases with FreeBSD-specific problems and they've fixed all so far. Yes, it is not a blackhole of support. At

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-05 Thread Joel Dahl
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 07:12:17PM -0500, Bryan Venteicher wrote: Hi, I've ported the OpenBSD vmxnet3 ethernet driver to FreeBSD. I did a lot of cleanup, bug fixes, new features, etc (+2000 new lines) along the way so there is not much of a resemblance left. The driver is in good enough

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-05 Thread Bryan Venteicher
- Original Message - I have ~100 FreeBSD 8/9 VMs in my vSphere 5.1 environment, all using the VMware tools package from VMware. Everything has been running great for years. (we skipped vSphere 5.0). Why should I use this vmxnet driver instead of the VMware tools driver or the

Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

2013-08-05 Thread Joel Dahl
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:52:01PM -0500, Bryan Venteicher wrote: - Original Message - I have ~100 FreeBSD 8/9 VMs in my vSphere 5.1 environment, all using the VMware tools package from VMware. Everything has been running great for years. (we skipped vSphere 5.0). Why should I