svn commit: r209060 - head/sys/dev/ixgbe

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Jack Vogel wrote:

Hi,

> HMMMMM, I put in a change in response to some people having problems with
> mbuf resources,  it seemed to work ok, but now i'm kinda concerned. Does
> this
> happen every time you bring the device up?
>
> In the routine 'ixgbe_setup_receive_ring()'  I changed a couple of
> M_NOWAIT's
> to M_WAITOK, thinking that it would be ok in this code, can you test it,
> change
> it back to M_NOWAIT, and see if this symptom goes away?

Will do and let you know.

I assume you mean the ones as part of r208762?


> How many cores does the machine have, I'm guessing its big?

4

After ~890 of those tires, locks, abd backtraces deadlkres killed it;)

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