vge problem

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:47:35PM +0900, Yoshiaki Kasahara wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:08:10 -0800,
> 	Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> said:
> 
> > I remember there were several instability reports of vge(4). Would
> > you try the following patch? The patch was generated against
> > CURRENT so it may not cleanly apply to 8.0 due to if_timer changes.
> > But I think you can download latest vge(4) code in CURRENT and
> > apply the patch. Note, the patch was not tested at all on real
> > hardware so it even may not work at all.(Long time ago, I ordered
> > the vge(4) hardware was not delivered.)
> 
> I downloaded vge(4) code in CURRENT, put it in 8.0R source tree,
> applied the patch, and rebuild GENERIC kernel (actually I shortcut it
> with NO_CLEAN flag).
> 
> After I rebooted with the new kernel, the boot sequence stopped just
> after setting hostname.
> 
> Setting hostname: elvenbow.cc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
> msk0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error
> vge0: link state changed to DOWN
> msk0: link state changed to DOWN
> (stop)
> 
> The system didn't completely freeze. I can push "Scroll Lock" and
> "Page Up/Down" to browse the boot messages, but sometimes it stopped
> responding to my input for a second. Ctrl-C had no effect and I had to
> hit the reset button. Now my PC is synchronizing degraded gmirror
> volume...(ouch)
> 

I'm not sure why it would get stuck. You touched only vge(4),
right?

> I'm wondering if I need complete kernel rebuild for the code to work...
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Yoshiaki Kasahara
> Research Institute for Information Technology, Kyushu University
> kasahara at nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp