Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:15:05 +0100 From: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com> To: rondzierwa@comcast.net Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sun x4500 and smp Message-ID: <550C5599.3080308@activnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <1492043232.11922576.1426870841994.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> References: <1346086351.8355778.1426536687864.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> <5507E845.40701@activnetworks.com> <1492043232.11922576.1426870841994.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net>
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On 03/20/15 18:00, rondzierwa@comcast.net wrote: > Thank you Remy! Your recommendation solved the problem. Its been > running for over a day now without a single hiccup. > > thanks also to everyone else who took time to respond with help and > suggestions. > > I also noticed after some experiencing that you may try to restrict the stickiness only to the 8 marvell chips and let the other relocate dynamically but I haven't completed all the tests so I keep bounding to cpu0. BTW, the solution was engraved on an old parchmail in the list and, as for you, it took me weeks to unearth it.... > > At the risk of being a bother, were you able to get all four ethernet > devices working? on mine, only the first two are working. the other > two get errors on ioport allocation. > I confirm only two over the four interfaces are usable. Have not looked farther. > em2: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.6> mem > 0xfdbe0000-0xfdbfffff irq 61 at device 1.0 on pci8 > em2: 0x40 bytes of rid 0x20 res 4 failed (0, 0xffffffffffffffff). > em2: Unable to allocate bus resource: ioport > em2: Allocation of PCI resources failed > device_attach: em2 attach returned 6 > em2: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.6> mem > 0xfdbc0000-0xfdbdffff irq 62 at device 1.1 on pci8 > em2: 0x40 bytes of rid 0x20 res 4 failed (0, 0xffffffffffffffff). > em2: Unable to allocate bus resource: ioport > em2: Allocation of PCI resources failed > device_attach: em2 attach returned 6 > > > ron. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: *"Remy Nonnenmacher" <remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com> > *To: *rondzierwa@comcast.net, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org > *Sent: *Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:39:33 AM > *Subject: *Re: sun x4500 and smp > > Hi Ron, > > Fighted the same problem on mine. It seems to be a problem of interrupts > dynamic routing on those old good opterons. > > I fixed it by sticking all interrupts to processor 0 (cpuset -l 0 -x > ..). Since then, it works without any trouble. > > > On 03/16/15 21:11, rondzierwa@comcast.net wrote: > > I am using a sunfire x4500 (thumper) with a pair of dual-core opteron > 290 processors, running 10.1-RELEASE to serve up zfs filesystems via nfs > and samba. > > > > The system reboots periodically when under load. I cannot find > anything in any of the system logs that would account for why it > rebooted, it just goes away for a while and comes back in a few minutes. > > > > Out of desperation, I tried disabling all but one of the processors. > (hint.lapic.x.disabled=1 where x == 1, 2 and 3). Oddly enough the system > doesn't reboot anymore. > > > > Is there any known issues about SMP not working on a sunfire x4500? I > have searched the mail archives and haven't found anything useful. > > > > thanks in advance for any help or suggestions. > > ron. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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