8.1-RELEASE em watchdog timeout broken?

[Jack Vogel]

The watchdog is working in all the internal testing that we've done, if
there's
some corner case here then I need more info to reproduce it. I'm confused
about what's what, which machine is your desktop and what is the 'other'
system?

For instance, we had a loud complaint about the watchdog here a while back,
and it turned out the user had increased the system HZ value to something
really high...  I've yet to see something that indicates the code is broken.

If it involves Windows then it goes outside the parameters of my testing so
who knows :)

Jack


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Scott Johnson <scottj75074 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Under 8.0-RELEASE I would get warnings from em(4) in /var/log/messages
> about
>
> "watchdog timeouts" on em0 whenever my desktop PC connected to em0 was
> powered
> off. This was fine, except for the annoying warnings.
>
> Under 8.1-RELEASE I no longer get the warnings, and any time my desktop is
> powered off, when I turn it back on, it has no connectivity. The interface
> is
> dead until I log into the console and run:
> # ifconfig em0 down up
>
> The em(4) driver has changed a lot since 8.0-RELEASE. It seems this
> watchdog
> timeout is no longer working.
>
> The board is a Supermicro X7SPA-H with Intel 82574L GbE.
>
> Any ideas for debugging?
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