Instability in re driver?
Al Plant
noc at hdk5.net
Thu Feb 20 19:06:15 UTC 2014
Brett Glass wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> We've been experiencing occasional crashes on heavily loaded machines
> that have Realtek gigabit Ethernet ports built into their motherboards.
> This evening, at a time of peak usage, one of the machines showed the
> log messages
>
> Feb 19 18:44:14 <kern.crit> server kernel: re0: watchdog timeout
> Feb 19 18:44:14 <kern.notice> server kernel: re0: link state changed to
> DOWN
> Feb 19 18:44:18 <kern.notice> server kernel: re0: link state changed to UP
>
> even though we did not take the port down or up. A few minutes later,
> the entire machine locked up solid and required a power cycle.
>
> Here are the boot time messages from the same server (as I rebooted it
> following the crash):
>
> Feb 19 19:08:22 <kern.crit> server kernel: re0: <RealTek 8168/8111
> B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit E
> thernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem
> 0xfeadf000-0xfeadffff,0xfdefc000-0xfdefffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> Feb 19 19:08:22 <kern.crit> server kernel: re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
> Feb 19 19:08:22 <kern.crit> server kernel: re0: Chip rev. 0x28000000
> Feb 19 19:08:22 <kern.crit> server kernel: re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
> Feb 19 19:08:22 <kern.crit> server kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
> Feb 19 19:08:22 <kern.crit> server kernel: rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211
> 1000BASE-T media interfa
> ce> PHY 1 on miibus0
> Feb 19 19:08:22 <kern.crit> server kernel: rgephy0: none, 10baseT,
> 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow
> , 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT,
> 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000base
> T-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto,
> auto-flow
>
> This problem is occurring on several servers built with the same
> motherboard/chipset. Are there known bugs, hangs, or memory leaks that
> might have led to this condition? Are there recent fixes which address
> it? (The machines that are crashing are all running the latest security
> patch level of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE.)
>
> --Brett Glass
>
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Aloha,
I have 3 servers and 2 desktops (All FreeBSD various versions) ( 10
cards) with Trend Net ( re0 ) Real tech 8110 /1000 and 2 cards built on
mobo.
I have not experienced this failure in 5 years of moderate service.
However, I did have a hardware issue that caused what you described.
There were capacitors that swelled up on the board. You may want to look
for something strange like that. It was a few years back in my case.
Al
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