svn commit: r215132 - head/sys/dev/nfe

Rob Farmer rfarmer at predatorlabs.net
Thu Nov 11 21:34:36 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 13:18, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, but I think this has nothing to do with the subject.
> I think MCP controllers have a silicon bug that does not generate
> TX completion interrupts under certain conditions/controller models.
> The PR indicates what was really happened which also indicates
> possible silicon bug. nve(4) also seems to have some workaround for
> that but I wanted to verify it since we don't know what binary blob
> did during controller initialization. The message just shows
> informational message and does not reset controller so I think that
> edge case is already handled by nfe(4).
>

I have a system that does this same thing - watchdog timeout (missed
Tx interrupts) over and over. It also generates so much bogus traffic
that all other systems connected to the same switch/hub lose their
network connection while the machine is running. Switching to nve
resolves the problem.

If it can't be fixed, that's fine. Just please don't remove nve -
there are systems that need it.

-- 
Rob Farmer


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