nvnet does not see NVidia's adapter on amd64

[Alexander Chamandy]

On 4/20/05, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> > > The latest version from Q's site works (!), but seems limited to
> > > 100baseTX full-duplex. Even at that nominal speed, the actual data
> > > transfers seem limited to 2-3 megabytes/s with occasional latency-spikes
> > >
> > > :-(
> 
> > I just tried the one from Q's site on my Asus K8NNXP nForce MCP3
> > Networking Adapter (RTL8201L) and it seems to peak at about 7-8MB/s.
> > I haven't had any latency problems.. perhaps this issue is isolated to
> > a certain network adapter?
> >
> > > I'll try to back-port if_nve manually and see, what happens.
> 
> Well, simply checking out sys/dev/nve, sys/contrib/dev/nve, and
> sys/modules/nve allowed me to build the if_nve module. Loading if_nve.ko
> attaches to the interface, but attempts to ifconfig it result in instant
> panic (page fault). I'm going to guess, there is some assumption the driver
> makes, that is true on 6.0, but on 5.x
> 
> So I'm back to net/nvnet's if_nv.ko, which is limping along...

Have you tried disabling ACPI and measuring performance then?  I had a
lot of problems with ACPI on this machine which is an AMD Athlon64
3200+ w/K8NNXP mainboard.. 2GB DDR RAM.

> 
> nv0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter> port 0xac00-0xac07 mem
> 0xff2fe000-0xff2fefff irq 22 at device 5.0 on pci0
> nv0: Ethernet address 00:d0:68:06:d8:c0
> miibus0: <MII bus> on nv0
> 
> My motherboard is IWill's DK8N -- dmesg attached.
> 
>         -mi
> 
> 
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 #0: Sun Apr 10 04:02:23 UTC 2005
>     root at portnoy.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> ACPI APIC Table: <A M I  OEMAPIC >
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 (1800.01-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0xf58  Stepping = 8
>   Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
>   AMD Features=0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
> real memory  = 2146697216 (2047 MB)
> avail memory = 2060873728 (1965 MB)
> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 24-27 on motherboard
> ioapic2 <Version 1.1> irqs 28-31 on motherboard
> acpi0: <A M I OEMXSDT> on motherboard
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LUS0 has invalid initial irq 10, ignoring
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LKLN has invalid initial irq 5, ignoring
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LUS1 has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LUS2 has invalid initial irq 7, ignoring
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LNKE has invalid initial irq 11, ignoring
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LNKB has invalid initial irq 10, ignoring
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LTIE has invalid initial irq 10, ignoring
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
> ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xff2fb000-0xff2fbfff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci0
> usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
> usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
> usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
> ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xff2fc000-0xff2fcfff irq 21 at device 2.1 on pci0
> usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
> usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting
> usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
> usb1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
> pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 2.2 (no driver attached)
> nv0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter> port 0xac00-0xac07 mem 0xff2fe000-0xff2fefff irq 22 at device 5.0 on pci0
> nv0: Ethernet address 00:d0:68:06:d8:c0
> miibus0: <MII bus> on nv0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
> nv0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:68:06:d8:c0
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 6.0 (no driver attached)
> atapci0: <nVidia nForce3 Pro UDMA133 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 8.0 on pci0
> ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
> ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
> atapci1: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 0xbc00-0xbc0f,0xc000-0xc003,0xc400-0xc407,0xc800-0xc803,0xcc00-0xcc07 irq 21 at device 10.0 on pci0
> ata2: channel #0 on atapci1
> ata3: channel #1 on atapci1
> pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 11.0 on pci0
> pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
> pci2: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 14.0 on pci0
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LNKD has invalid initial irq 10, ignoring
> ACPI link \\_SB_.LNKC has invalid initial irq 10, ignoring
> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
> fwohci0: <Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A> mem 0xff0f8000-0xff0fbfff,0xff0ff800-0xff0fffff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci1
> fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
> fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
> fwohci0: EUI64 00:00:00:00:00:01:46:87
> fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
> fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
> firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
> fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
> if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:00:00:01:46:87
> fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:00:00:01:46:87
> fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant
> sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
> fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
> fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
> firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
> firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
> pcib3: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
> pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
> pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci3
> pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
> atapci2: <SiI 3114 SATA150 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc0f,0xe000-0xe003,0xe400-0xe407,0xe800-0xe803,0xec00-0xec07 mem 0xff5ffc00-0xff5fffff irq 27 at device 3.0 on pci5
> ata4: channel #0 on atapci2
> ata5: channel #1 on atapci2
> ata6: channel #2 on atapci2
> ata7: channel #3 on atapci2
> pci3: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
> pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci3
> pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.51> mem 0xfeaf0000-0xfeafffff irq 29 at device 1.0 on pci4
> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID SATA 150-6D> Firmware 712T, BIOS G116, 64MB RAM
> pci3: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 2.1 (no driver attached)
> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
> sio1: type 16550A
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc8800-0xccfff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
> ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1800006080 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> acd0: CDROM <FX320S/q01> at ata1-master PIO4
> ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00FYB0/02.05D02> [387621/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33
> ad8: 190782MB <ST3200822AS/3.01> [387621/16/63] at ata4-master SATA150
> amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> amrd0: 953885MB (1953556480 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad8s2a
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Best wishes,

Alexander G. Chamandy
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