Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

[Philippe Pegon]

Hi,

On this subject, does somebody know why there is no pending issues listed
at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html ?

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Philippe Pegon

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:34:16PM +1000, John Marshall wrote:
>> $ dmesg | grep bge
>> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5705K Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x3003> mem
>> 0xe8200000-0xe820ffff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci4
>> miibus1: <MII bus> on bge0
>> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:e7:51:ba
>> bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
>> bge0: link state changed to DOWN
>> bge0: link state changed to UP
> 
> As far as SCHED_ULE goes, if you have issues with it, use SCHED_4BSD.
> 4BSD is still the default, and definitely works.  I've run into too
> many issues (in the past; maybe some have since been dealt with)
> with ULE, so I stick purely with 4BSD.
> 
> Now, about watchdog timeouts in general -- there's a pending issue
> which is still under investigation.  Please see this thread:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028792.html
> 
> Yes, it's long, but it does pertain to bge (despite the subject
> stating em).  After you read it all, or most of it, you should
> probably partake in the convo there.