Constant watchdog timeouts on em0 with today's -CURRENT
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 23 00:33:19 PST 2006
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 01:18 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 00:35 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> >> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>> I just synced with today's -CURRENT, and rendered by port build machine
> >>> useless. With minimal network traffic (just logging in via SSH with a
> >>> TCP NFS-mounted home) I get an immediate watchdog timeout on em0, and
> >>> they just keep coming as I type in the session. The machine is
> >>> otherwise idle while this is occurring.
> >>>
> >>> I am currently running:
> >>>
> >>> FreeBSD fugu.marcuscom.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #83: Thu Nov
> >>> 23 01:51:05 EST 2006
> >>> root at fugu.marcuscom.com:/space2/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU i386
> >>>
> >>> I was running:
> >>>
> >>> FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #80: Fri Nov 10 15:53:48 EST 2006
> >>> marcus at fugu.marcuscom.com:/space2/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU
> >>>
> >>> Which provided stable networking. Here are my verbose dmesg and kernel
> >>> config. Note: this machine has both am if_em and an mpt card. Could
> >>> the recent MSI changes have exacerbated the em watchdog problem? What
> >>> can I do (besides downgrade) to resolve this? Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/fugu_dmesg.txt
> >>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/fugu_kernel.txt
> >>>
> >>> Joe
> >> Have you followed the instructions in src/UPDATING on how to turn MSI
> >> off?
> >
> > Man, do I feel stupid. I completely overlooked UPDATING. Indeed,
> > disabling MSI restores network stability. Thanks, Scott.
> >
> > Joe
> >
>
> Btw, could you submit a PR with your system information and assign it to
> John? I know that he intends to do some form of blacklist or whitelist
> for MSI support, and data like yours is needed for that.
Done:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105768 .
Thanks again for knocking some sense into me.
Joe
--
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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