any hope for nfe/msk?

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 01:53:25 PDT 2007


On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:33:48AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 	these drivers don't work under 7.0
 > As soon as some mild preasure is applied, they start loosing interrupts, and
 > in my case the hosts come to a total stand-still, since they are diskless
 > and rely on the network.
 > This happens at 1gb and at 100mg.
 > 
 > Maybe the problem is with the shared interrups?
 > 	
 > 	irq16: mskc0 uhci0               3308351         13
 > or
 > 	irq21: nfe0 ohci0                1584415         24
 > 
 > but I have no idea how to uncouple this
 > 

If you see watchdog timeout errors on your console, shared interrupt
would be culprit.
For msk(4) set hw.msk.legacy_intr="1" in loader.conf or use kenv(1)
to set it before loading msk(4) kernel module.
For nfe(4) you can switch to polling(4).

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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