Need help building module for broadcom 5719

[shikka]

Ok here we are

vmstat -i before
irq256: bge0    2          0
irq257: bge1    642      1

vmstat -i after
irq256: bge0    2          0
irq257: bge1    937      1

i'am not familiar with this, but for me it seems like there is no interrupt throughput.

I've tried the snapshot from 2013-04-21 where the patch was active and it worked.

[tuyan]

Hi,

I have a new set of patches from stable 8, and i am currently testing them with 5719 and 5720 .
I will attach them here once the testing is done.

Thanks.

[shikka]

sounds good
if you need help to test let me know

Thanks

[tuyan]

Could you guys please test these ? I am seeing excessive mbuf usage on an R420, maybe i am missing something.

http://www.4inarow.net/pfsense/bge.zip

you need to extract the zip under from-8-STABLE directory, and add

-p1from-8-STABLE/bge/if_bge.c.patch~
-p1from-8-STABLE/bge/if_bgereg.h.patch~
-p1from-8-STABLE/bge/mii_brgphy.c.patch~
-p1from-8-STABLE/bge/pcireg.h.patch~
-p1~~from-8-STABLE/bge/pcireg.h.2.patch~

to patches.RELENG_8_3 file.

[shikka]

Hi,

sorry had some trouble with my build environment.

The result:

fresh boot:  16% (4182/25600)

will report after a few tests.

Thanks

01 Hour 18% (4726/25600)
ITEM                     SIZE     LIMIT      USED      FREE  REQUESTS  FAILURES
mbuf_packet:              256,        0,     2048,     1536,   226584,        0
mbuf:                     256,        0,       12,     1279,   314311,        0
mbuf_cluster:            2048,    25600,     3585,     1141,    27111,        0
mbuf_jumbo_page:         4096,    12800,        0,      119,     6973,        0
mbuf_jumbo_9k:           9216,     6400,        0,        0,        0,        0
mbuf_jumbo_16k:         16384,     3200,        0,        0,        0,        0
mbuf_ext_refcnt:            4,        0,        0,        0,        0,        0

02 Hours: 18% (4726/25600)
ITEM                     SIZE     LIMIT      USED      FREE  REQUESTS  FAILURES
mbuf_packet:              256,        0,     2048,     1536,   338428,        0
mbuf:                     256,        0,       14,     1277,   429467,        0
mbuf_cluster:            2048,    25600,     3585,     1141,    35477,        0
mbuf_jumbo_page:         4096,    12800,        0,      119,     8797,        0
mbuf_jumbo_9k:           9216,     6400,        0,        0,        0,        0
mbuf_jumbo_16k:         16384,     3200,        0,        0,        0,        0
mbuf_ext_refcnt:            4,        0,        0,        0,        0,        0

5hour: 19% (4854/25600)
mbuf_packet:              256,        0,     2048,     1664,   903442,        0
mbuf:                     256,        0,       13,     1270,  1163233,        0
mbuf_cluster:            2048,    25600,     3713,     1141,    75512,        0
mbuf_jumbo_page:         4096,    12800,        0,      119,    11718,        0
mbuf_jumbo_9k:           9216,     6400,        0,        0,        0,        0
mbuf_jumbo_16k:         16384,     3200,        0,        0,        0,        0
mbuf_ext_refcnt:            4,        0,        0,        0,        0,        0

[tuyan]

Are you able to use all of the ports on the card ? On dell R420, I was having DMA timeouts up until patched the kernel to increase the ata request timeout.

[shikka]

At the moment I use 3 ports without any DMA timeouts. Can try the 4th port tomorrow, when I have patched one more line.

4 Ports no problems :-)
mbuf is constant

[tuyan]

Perfect. on my local tests, i see about 984Mbps of throughput on a single port wan. And ~1.94 Gbps on 2 ports bridged on the lan side.

Ok. Is there any possibility to see what were the issues in operation with the previous backport? If we can verify those , i can send a pull request to repo for these patches.

[shikka]

Sounds great.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,63484.0.html

Unfortunately I have no intel network card  to test.

[DJP]

Hello,

I'm interested to have a pfsense release with BCM5719 working. How can I do since the current release doesn't seems to be compatible ?

Thanks,
Regards,

[shikka]

Hi,
sorry for the delay. You can compile a pfsense iso with the diffs from tuyan (http://www.4inarow.net/pfsense/bge.zip). Works for me.

[DJP]

Hi,

Is there a way to upload your compiled iso ? I don't have the environment to recompile the iso and i'm not sure how to do it :-(

I can provide an FTP or smth if you want…

Many thanks.

[shikka]

Have fun  :)

http://www.share-online.biz/dl/OQ4XR5YM8N3C

[DJP]

Hi Santa Shikka, :)

Oh many many thanks. I'll try this out asap !

Regards,

[BKAS2014]

Thank you very much for this image.

Now i can install pfsense on our Dell R320 Servers.

The only Problem i have, that i cant update to a snapshot version 2.1.1

I hope the broadcom drivers will be included in another release.

Kind Regards

Boris

PS.: Sorry for the poor English :-)

[fernandopsilveira]

Hi! I'm also having this issue with Broadcom BCM5719/BCM5720. I would like to try shikka's build, but link is broken.

Could someone please upload it again?  :D
Thank you!!

[charliem]

If you are experimenting, why not try a 2.2 alpha snapshot, and report any problems you have, rather than backporting a driver to 2.1.x?  FreeBSD 10.0 used in pfSense 2.2 should have the newer bge chipsets supported.

Also, even if someone does have the iso you referenced, a link to a user-compiled iso will not last long in this forum, given the recent crackdowns on pfSense development in the wild.

[fernandopsilveira]

Unfortunatelly I'm stucked on pfSense 2.1 right now.  :-\

It would be great if someone could at least republish tuyan's patches, since the given link (http://www.4inarow.net/pfsense/bge.zip) is broken…  :P

[fernandopsilveira]

Finally!  :D
I was able to build BCM5719/BCM5720 drivers (both 32-bit and 64-bit) using pfsense-tools RELENG_2_1 patches, no need for any additional patches. If someone need those drivers, just PM me ;)

[mirage22]

I know this is off topic. But does this device support inline IPS?

Also do you know where can I get updated firmware for this device.

Thanks in advance!