bge(4) watchdog timeout with APIC 5.4-prerel setup with 64bit PCI cards

[Pawel Malachowski]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:50:28PM +0100, Pawel Malachowski wrote:

> Machine B: 5.4-PRERELEASE, GENERIC, IBM (x225?), dual Xeon, 64bit PCI.
> HTT disabled, ACPI disabled, GIANT LOCK.
> . bge0 on board BCM5703
> . two 3Com bge{1,2} NICs BCM5701 (identical as in A, but in 64bit PCI slots)
> Cards connected to 100Mbps switch.
> This machine works just fine only when onboard bge0 NIC is being used.
> If I move vlans wih real traffic (only about 5-10Mbit/s) to bge1 or bge2,
> it will fail with watchdog timeout few times per day (sometimes few times
> per hour).
> 
> Cables were replaced, switch was changed.
> SMP was disabled.
> System was updated from 5.3-RELEASE to latest RELENG_5.
> 
> Nothing helps!
> 
> I'm currently running UP GENERIC kernel with APIC disabled, seems to work
> fine (1 hour).

Failed again...

Mar 18 21:49:01 xxx kernel: bge2: watchdog timeout -- resetting
Mar 18 21:49:21 xxx last message repeated 2 times

No idea, what else can I test?


bge1: <Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem 0xf1000000-0xf100ffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci4
miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1
brgphy1: <BCM5701 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1
brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto

bge2: <Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem 0xf1010000-0xf101ffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci4
miibus2: <MII bus> on bge2
brgphy2: <BCM5701 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus2
brgphy2:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto


This onboard card works without problems.

bge0: <Broadcom BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x1002> mem 0xf2000000-0xf200ffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci3
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5703 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto



-- 
Paweł Małachowski