When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

[Scott Long]

Tom Judge wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:15:14PM +0100, Jason Thomson wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Using the driver from HEAD* in the latest RELENG_6 didn't fix our
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> We could still trigger the Watchdog timeout when copying a local file to
>>> an NFS mounted filesystem (UDP mount, GigE speeds).
>>>
>>> It was also possible to trigger this bug with multiple simultaneous TCP
>>> streams,  but that took a little longer.
>>>
>>> Copying a local file to an NFS/UDP filesystem would trigger the bug in a
>>> few seconds.
>>>
>>> If there's anything we can do to help debug this,  please let us know.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> Per my previous mails, the (known) bce watchdogs are symptoms of
>> driver bugs which can be usefully converted into panics by enabling
>> INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT.  Please do so, then report what
>> happens.
>>
>> Kris
>>   
> 
> Hi Kris,
> 
> I am a colleague of Jason's,  when we were testing this patch the kernel 
> used had both options set:
> 
> option INVARIANTS
> option INVARIANT_SUPPORT
> 
> Although on several boxes we have failed to cause a kernel panic, only 
> watchdog timeouts.  However the last crash that we reproduced did 
> trigger several:
> 
> bce: need to defrag
> 
> Messages on the console before the watchdob timeout occured.
> 
> 
> Tom

This is a debugging message that I accidentally left in.  It may relate
to the problem, I'll take a look.

Scott