Any way to solve "watchdog timeout" on network-IF?

[LI Xin]

KAWAGUTI Ginga wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD/i386 6-stable on HP DL360G5 server,
> and getting "Watchdog timeout" & "link state changed to DOWN/UP"
> messages shown below.
> 
> bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(5000): Watchdog timeout occurred, resetting!
> bce0: link state changed to DOWN
> bce0: link state changed to UP
> 
> [System I'm using:]
> 
>   * CPU Xeon 51xx, 
>   * Intel 5000X chipset
>   * NIC:  bce (1.2.2.6 2006/10/24)
>      bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> 
>            mem 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
>      bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz

Try this patch, it solved some problems we have observed in China community.

For -CURRENT:
http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/patch-bce-watchdog-rewrite-HEAD.20070109

For -STABLE:
http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/misc/patch-bce-watchdog-rewrite

Note that the -STABLE version is an old, but tested one.  The -CURRENT
version is optimized, but I have not stress tested yet.  Both should
apply to the different branch cleanly, though.

I would appreciate if you would test the -HEAD patch, even with RELENG_6
and report if it solves your problem.  But if the server is important to
you then just use the latter.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 249 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070110/5da13575/signature.pgp