From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 17:52:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C84E16A403 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:52:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B9143D77 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:52:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADD41A3C19; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:52:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6755515F0; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:52:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:52:57 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jason Thomson Message-ID: <20061018175257.GA97258@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45364782.8090209@samsco.org> <45366122.6090704@mintel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45366122.6090704@mintel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Conrad Burger Subject: Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:52:59 -0000 --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:15:14PM +0100, Jason Thomson wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > > Conrad Burger wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> It looks like there is a "new" version of the bce driver in HEAD. > >> When will it be incorporated into Releng_6? > > > > > > It will be merged when someone, preferably 2-3 people, tell me that > > the changes in HEAD work for them. So far, no one has. > > > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ >=20 > Using the driver from HEAD* in the latest RELENG_6 didn't fix our > problems. >=20 > We could still trigger the Watchdog timeout when copying a local file to > an NFS mounted filesystem (UDP mount, GigE speeds). >=20 > It was also possible to trigger this bug with multiple simultaneous TCP > streams, but that took a little longer. >=20 > Copying a local file to an NFS/UDP filesystem would trigger the bug in a > few seconds. >=20 > If there's anything we can do to help debug this, please let us know. Per my previous mails, the (known) bce watchdogs are symptoms of driver bugs which can be usefully converted into panics by enabling INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT. Please do so, then report what happens. Kris --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFNmn5Wry0BWjoQKURAhWWAKDGK5Jnmfa23MK0SDOc9pQej6DOCACfSNQ/ wMOX5f0PaQ6te1lQUBLHJtM= =m7kM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB--