Problem with nfe stability and throughput

[Chris Poulsen]

Hi,

Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 11:49:40PM +0100, Chris Poulsen wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I've installed CURRENT on an asus m2n-vm. My network config is giving me 
>  > problems.
>  <snip>
>  > My dmesg contains:
>  > 
>  > ata3: [ITHREAD]
>  > nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP67 Networking Adapter> port 0xd880-0xd887 mem 
>  > 0xdfffc000-0xdfffcfff,0xdfffe400-0xdfffe4ff,0
>  > xdfffe000-0xdfffe00f irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0
>  > miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
>  > ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
>    ^^^^^^
> It seems that ukphy(4) was picked up to serve your PHY hardware.
> I guess ukphy(4) is not right phy driver for the hardware as it could
> result in non-working driver. Would you show me the ukphy(4) output of
> verbosed boot message?(In verbosed boot mode, ukphy(4) may have printed
> OUI/model number of the PHY hardware.)
>
>  > ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
>  > nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:1d:60:6d:73:ec
> <snip>
>   
A verbose boot log contains the following:
...
ata3: [ITHREAD]
nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP67 Networking Adapter> port 0xd880-0xd887 mem 
0xdfffc000-0xdfffcfff,0xdfffe400-0xdfffe4ff,0xdfffe000-0xdfffe00f irq 23 
at device 10.0 on pci0
nfe0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xdfffc000
nfe0: attempting to allocate 8 MSI vectors (8 supported)
msi: routing MSI IRQ 256 to vector 56
msi: routing MSI IRQ 257 to vector 57
msi: routing MSI IRQ 258 to vector 58
msi: routing MSI IRQ 259 to vector 59
msi: routing MSI IRQ 260 to vector 60
msi: routing MSI IRQ 261 to vector 61
msi: routing MSI IRQ 262 to vector 62
msi: routing MSI IRQ 263 to vector 63
nfe0: using IRQs 256-263 for MSI
nfe0: Using 8 MSI messages
miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
ukphy0: OUI 0x001374, model 0x0001, rev. 6
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
nfe0: bpf attached
nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:1d:60:6d:73:ec
nfe0: [MPSAFE]
nfe0: [FILTER]
...

Also I noticed that both nfe0 and ohci1 both lists irq 23, but I don't 
know if that is a problem :)
...
ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xdfffd000-0xdfffdfff irq 23 
at device 4.0 on pci0
...

What would be the next step for me to try in order to resolve this?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards
Chris