bce watchdog timeout occurred, resetting

[John Fitzgerald]

Many thanks. Is there any change this would lock out the interface
permanently, requiring a manual (local) ifconfig up fix? This server
is managed remotely.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
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> Hi, John,
>
> John Fitzgerald wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:56 PM, John Fitzgerald <jjfitzgerald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
> [...]
>>> I'm afraid it's the driver logic problem, but I don't know where to go
>>> from here. Any ideas? I'm using 6.2-RELEASE.
>
> I have committed a changeset after 6.2-RELEASE which could have fixed
> your problem.  Could you please try if later FreeBSD releases still
> suffer from this problem?
>
> Revision 1.2.2.8 Thu Jan 18 16:14:19 2007 UTC delphij
>
> MFC if_bce.c (1.23-24), if_bcereg.h (1.11):
>
>  - Instead of if_watchdog/if_timer interface use our own timer
>   that piggybacks on bce_tick() callout.
>  - Instead of unconditionally resetting the controller, try to
>   skip the reset in case we got a pause frame, like em(4) did.
>  - Lock bce_tick() using callout_init_mtx().
>
> Cheers,
> - --
> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    http://www.delphij.net/
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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