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

Olivier Mueller om-lists-bsd at omx.ch
Mon Nov 6 22:42:06 UTC 2006


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
0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:f8:6f:8c
bce0: link state changed to UP


NFS Client: dell poweredge 1750, with :
bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2002> 

Both running an up-to-date setup of FreeBSD 6.1. 

Situation:

- Copying GB of data via rsync or ftp: no problem
- Mounting a test directory from the 1950 via NFS on the 1750 server and
  creating some files/directories: ok
- Mounting a dir with many files via NFS (/var/tmp, 14000 php_sess): ok
- Start a directory listing on it:  immediate (network) crash of the NFS
  server.   (reproduced 3 times)

I don't have remote console display anymore (only power on/off), so I
can only see the server going away from the network (not pingable
anymore) at the moment, but it is most probably still working then. Only
thing I found in /var/log/messages:

Nov  6 23:09:44 gemini kernel:
bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(5000): Watchdog timeout occurred,
resetting!
Nov  6 23:09:44 gemini kernel: bce0: link state changed to DOWN
Nov  6 23:09:46 gemini kernel: bce0: link state changed to UP
Nov  6 23:10:49 gemini kernel:
bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(5000): Watchdog timeout occurred,
resetting!
Nov  6 23:10:49 gemini kernel: bce0: link state changed to DOWN
Nov  6 23:10:51 gemini kernel: bce0: link state changed to UP



What could/should I try next?  The 1.18 version of if_bce.c ?  (if the
dell PE1950 is using the same NIC as the PE1955: cf.
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg83981.html )

Are there people around using a 1950 without any NIC problems? (tcp &&
udp). If yes, please tell me which cvs version of the driver you are
using.

Thanks & regards,
Olivier




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