From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 13 18:22:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8705A1065670 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:22:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from mail.digiware.nl (mail.ip6.digiware.nl [IPv6:2001:4cb8:1:106::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212FC8FC0C for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rack1.digiware.nl (localhost.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C60F153434; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:22:15 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from mail.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by rack1.digiware.nl (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rcyd7ucllUHX; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:22:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.67] (opteron [192.168.10.67]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29032153433; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:22:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EC00ACF.4050803@digiware.nl> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:22:07 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Boyd References: <4EBB97DF.3020803@digiware.nl> <20111110095041.GA73812@icarus.home.lan> <4EBBBACE.3020900@digiware.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" , "Vogel, Jack" , Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: em0 watchdog timeout 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: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:22:17 -0000 On 2011-11-10 23:25, Joshua Boyd wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Willem Jan Withagen > wrote: > > em0@pci0:0:25:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10bd15d9 > chip=0x10bd8086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > device = 'Intel 82566DM Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (82566DM)' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > bar [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xdf900000, size > 131072, enabled > bar [14] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xdf924000, size 4096, > enabled > bar [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x1820, size 32, enabled > cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 > cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message > cap 13[e0] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP > > > And note that this problem only raises it nasty head very few weeks... > > > I have had the same problem, as shown here: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-June/063092.html > > According to your pciconf output, your card either doesn't support > MSI-X, or you have MSI-X disabled. > > Check the hw.pci.enable_msix sysctl and make sure that it is set to 1. > Also check to make sure there aren't any BIOS settings blocking MSI-X. > > Apparently the older Intel gigabit cards don't support MSI-X, and as > such get starved. Upgraded to a new bios, but that does not help either. Now the trick question will be: IF I get a new servertype PCI-E ethernet card, would that get me an MSI-X ethernet device. --WjW