On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Jeremy Karlson wrote: > I'm still looking into my watchdog timeout with me re card. I'm > starting to wonder if my problem is in any way related to the > discussion back in September 2006 starting with this post: > > "6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2" > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028792.htm >l > > It seems that under certain conditions and loads, a network interface > with a shared interrupt would stop responding until the watchdog > resets it. This seems to be very similar to what I see. At the time, > they seemed mostly concerned about fixing the em driver; I'm using re. > > Unfortunately though, I can't seem to find what the resolution to this > was, and if it could be related to the failure I'm seeing. Does > anyone know what happened with that problem? > > -- Jeremy
If I remember correctly, there were two problems: 1) there was a race in the interrupt handler (this affected all interrupt handlers), 2) em used the now obsolete if_timer to implement it's watchdog timeout. This timer is unreliable. Both items have been fixed, so this shouldn't be related to your problem. #2 wasn't fixed in all drivers, but if you are affected you should see a warning on startup stating the use of the obsolete timer. I believe if_re was converted some time ago. Note that in theory watchdog timeouts could also mean broken hardware, bad connection to PCI bus or other intermittent hw failure. I would try reseating the card in another slot. -- Pieter de Goeje _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
