Conflict between nfe(4) and x11/nvidia-driver

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:35:27PM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
 > Hi, All.
 > 
 > I have notebook with NVIDIA based network adapter and video.
 > >From dmesg:
 > 
 > nvidia0: <GeForce Go 6100> mem 0xc2000000-0xc2ffffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xc1000000-0xc1ffffff irq 5 at device 5.0 on pci0
 > nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
 > nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
 > ...
 > nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP13 Networking Adapter> port 0x30b8-0x30bf mem 0xc0007000-0xc0007fff irq 5 at device 20.0 on pci0
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
 > rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
 > rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 > nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:90:f5:4f:18:1b
 > nfe0: [FILTER]
 > 
 > Some time ago i've used nve(4) and nvidia-driver without problems. 
 > But nve(4) is buggy and sometimes have watchdog timeouts.
 > 
 > After switching to nfe(4) i can't use x11/nvidia-driver. 
 > After some time of running, Xorg process takes 100% of resources and 
 > system not responds. But i can power off my system via ACPI.
 > After reboot i have following messages in the /var/log/messages:
 > 
 > Jul 20 16:26:51 btr-nb kernel: nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering
 > Jul 20 16:27:39 btr-nb last message repeated 3 times
 > Jul 20 16:27:58 btr-nb kernel: nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering
 > Jul 20 16:28:08 btr-nb kernel: acpi_button0: power button pressed
 > 
 > nfe(4) without x11/nvidia-driver and x11/nvidia-driver without nfe(4) 
 > works stable.
 > But i want use both nfe(4) and x11/nvidia-driver...
 > Can somebody suggest me some tricks?
 > 

Show me the output of "vmstat -i".
I guess nfe(4) shares interrupt with your video adapter.
If this is the case use polling(4) which may fix the issue.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon