em driver testing

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Tue Nov 7 23:36:30 UTC 2006


At 04:52 PM 11/7/2006, Scott Long wrote:

>I think it's more that the if_em driver watchdog was insulating the 
>if_xl driver.  Once the if_em component was removed, the if_xl driver
>was the next in line to be a victim.  So yes, like you say, all of the
>drivers need to be fixed.

I wonder if thats what the issue I was seeing on the rl interface. 
While trying to stress test an em based machine, I saw

Nov  6 17:33:05 releng6-865 kernel: rl0: watchdog timeout

while blasting out UDP traffic via netrate from the rl based box to 
the em based box.

         ---Mike 



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