Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:46:44 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, protagonist@gmx.net Subject: Re: nve(4) timeout fix Message-ID: <200604281646.46451.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <vita-brevis-breviter-in-brevi-finietur-mors-venit-velociter-quae-neminem-veretur-868xppk0tz.fsf@shodan.gothgoose.net> References: <20060427120035.D7FA016A43B@hub.freebsd.org> <4450D0E8.4000403@uchicago.edu> <vita-brevis-breviter-in-brevi-finietur-mors-venit-velociter-quae-neminem-veretur-868xppk0tz.fsf@shodan.gothgoose.net>
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On Friday 28 April 2006 14:32, Marcus Frings wrote: > * Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> wrote: > > > Also on the subject of nVidia NICs, I've fixed the device timeout > > problem on nve(4). It appears that some revisions of the hardware don't > > send interrupts on tx completion, which caused watchdog timeouts under > > low load. We should take this hardware quirk into account for the nfe > > port as well. > > I also applied this patch to my FreeBSD 6.1RC (Asus A8N-E) for testing > and it works perfectly. By now I don't have any timeouts anymore! > > Will it be added to the official release of 6.1 or CURRENT? It's in current but is probably too late for 6.1. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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