Still have BCE driver issues (dell pe 1950) and NFS

[Fredrik Widlund]

Hi,

This is still an issue, we are experiencing hangs and loss of
connectivity on 6.2-release Dell pe1950 machines without
debug.mpsafenet=0. They last about a minute then the machines come alive
again. Needless to say this is impossible to tolerate in a production
environment.

Kind regards,
Fredrik Widlund

Fredrik Widlund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Will a fix/this fix be part of the 6.2 Release? We will be relying
> heavily on fbsd6.2 and pe1950 and are worried about the BCE stability?
>
> Kind regards,
> Fredrik Widlund
>
> Scott Long wrote:
>   
>> Olivier Mueller wrote:
>>     
>>> Le 7 nov. 06 à 01:15, Scott Long a écrit :
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Olivier Mueller wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> NFS Server: dell poweredge 1950, with the 1.2.2.6 version of if_bce.c:
>>>>> bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem
>>>>> - Start a directory listing on it:  immediate (network) crash of
>>>>> the NFS
>>>>>   server.   (reproduced 3 times)
>>>>>           
>>>> Do the following, then retry your test:
>>>> ifconfig bce0 -txcsum
>>>>         
>>> Oh, this way it looks much better, thanks.  Directory listing was fine,
>>> and copying files during 2-3 minutes over NFS worked as well. More
>>> tests will follow tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Next step? :-)  Should I put that command somewhere in my init
>>> scripts, or even directly in rc.conf, or wait for a new if_bce0.c
>>> version?  I am available for any other PE1950-related tests if this
>>> may help.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Olivier
>>>       
>> Change /sys/dev/bce/if_bcereg.h so that BCE_IF_HWASSIST is defined to 0.
>> Then recompile.
>>
>> Scott
>>
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