Author: hrs
Date: Sun Jan 8 00:14:45 2012
New Revision: 229797
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229797
Log:
- Add relnotes items:
nfe(4) reinit issue fixed,
re(4) RX int moderation changed from int taskq to one-shot timer,
re(4) TSO disabled by default,
re(4) RTL8105E support, and
rlphy(4) RTL8201E support.
Modified:
stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sat Jan 7
23:47:09 2012 (r229796)
+++ stable/9/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Sun Jan 8
00:14:45 2012 (r229797)
@@ -225,6 +225,10 @@
fixed. It could prevent the RX checksum offloading from
working.</para>
+ <para revision="217794">A bug in &man.nfe.4; driver which
+ could prevent reinitialization after changing the MTU has
+ been fixed.</para>
+
<para revision="217511">A bug in &man.ral.4; and &man.run.4;
drivers which could prevent <literal>hostap</literal> mode
from working has been fixed.</para>
@@ -235,11 +239,31 @@
<para revision="217498">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
RTL8168E/8111E-VL PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controllers.</para>
- <para revision="217246">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
- TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) on RealTek RTL8168/8111 C
- or later controllers. Note that this is disabled by
- default on some old devices because broken frames can be
- sent under certain conditions.</para>
+ <para revision="217766">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
+ TX interrupt moderation on RTL810xE PCIe Fast Ethernet
+ controllers.</para>
+
+ <para revision="217902">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
+ another mechanism for RX interrupt moderation because of
+ performance problem. A &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <varname>dev.re.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.int_rx_mod</varname>
+ has been added to control amount of time to delay RX
+ interrupt processing in units of microsecond. Setting it
+ to <literal>0</literal> completely disables RX interrupt
+ moderation. A &man.loader.8; tunable
+ <varname>hw.re.intr_filter</varname> controls whether the
+ old mechanism utilizing MSI/MSI-X capability on the
+ supported controllers is used or not. When setting it to
+ a non-zero value, the &man.re.4; driver uses the old
+ mechanism. The default value is <literal>0</literal> and
+ this tunable has no effect on controllers without MSI/MSI-X
+ capability.</para>
+
+ <para revision="217246,217832">The &man.re.4; driver now
+ supports TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) on RealTek
+ RTL8168/8111 C or later controllers. Note that this is
+ disabled by default because broken frames can be sent
+ under certain conditions.</para>
<para revision="217381">The &man.re.4; driver now supports
enabling TX and/or RX checksum offloading independently
@@ -250,11 +274,18 @@
frame on an RTL8169C, 8169D, or 8169E controller-based
network interface.</para>
+ <para revision="217911">The &man.re.4; driver now support
+ RTL8105E PCIe Fast Ethernet controller.</para>
+
+ <para revision="217910">The rlphy(4) driver now support
+ Realtek RTL8201E 10/100 PHY found in RTL8105E
+ controller.</para>
+
<para revision="217548">A bug in the &man.sis.4; driver has
been changed. It could prevent a proper reinitialization
on DP83815, DP83816, and SiS 900/7016 controllers when
configuration of multicast packet handling and/or
- promiscus mode is changed.</para>
+ promiscuous mode is changed.</para>
<para revision="216650">A bug in &man.vlan.4; pseudo interface
han been fixed. It could have a random interface
@@ -387,10 +418,10 @@ wpi0: wpi_rx_intr: bus_dmamap_load faile
<para revision="217557">A bug in the &man.sh.1; program has been
fixed. When a foreground job exits on a signal, a message is
- printed to stdout about this. The buffer was not flushed after
- this which could result in the message being written to the
- wrong file if the next command was a builtin and had stdout
- redirected.</para>
+ printed to <filename>stdout</filename> about this. The buffer
+ was not flushed after this which could result in the message
+ being written to the wrong file if the next command was a
+ builtin and had <filename>stdout</filename> redirected.</para>
<para revision="217461">The &man.sh.1; program now supports a
<option>--</option> flag in <command>trap</command> command to
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