From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Jul  3 11:04:37 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA6B16A468
	for <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>; Tue,  3 Jul 2007 11:04:37 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com)
Received: from smtp802.mail.ird.yahoo.com (smtp802.mail.ird.yahoo.com
	[217.146.188.62])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BD8E13C457
	for <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>; Tue,  3 Jul 2007 11:04:36 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com)
Received: (qmail 25117 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2007 11:04:33 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?)
	(thomasjudge@btinternet.com@86.139.149.183 with plain)
	by smtp802.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jul 2007 11:04:33 -0000
X-YMail-OSG: F0r0VIYVM1lTqKgDayJGM3RPba3.8pdG7_p7xRhn_jZxHUuFnO8aadOsbzVO8V07v2ys0QtO6nQiUhj5abtve5ivmgmWzbu6UA--
Message-ID: <468A2D55.60301@tomjudge.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:04:53 +0100
From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com>
References: <46680DB1.9050905@tomjudge.com>
	<09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030414B1EC@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
	<466873FA.9030800@tomjudge.com>
	<09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030423EE13@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
	<46823A78.7020501@tomjudge.com> <4683C578.6070009@tomjudge.com>
	<09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD90304571430@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
	<09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903045714EF@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
	<4684D5C0.3040709@tomjudge.com>
	<ea7b9c170706300244s5c93851fn6a8e63f2d3b05da4@mail.gmail.com>
	<09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD90304571BF1@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD90304571BF1@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com>,
	freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950)
X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD <freebsd-net.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net>,
	<mailto:freebsd-net-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-net-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net>,
	<mailto:freebsd-net-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:04:37 -0000

David Christensen wrote:
>> Sorry for the top post, please try following patch:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~sephe/if_bce.c.diff
>>
>> This is probably the cause; I noticed it when bce(4) was 
>> ported to DragonFly.
>>
> 
> Thanks Sephe, I think you're on to something.  I have some
> debug code in the driver to simulate mbuf allocation
> failures and when I enable that I start receiving the same
> error messages Tom reported (along with various kernel
> panics), but when I include your change the system seems
> to keep humming along.  
> 
> I'll certainly add your code into an update shortly.
> 
> Dave
> 

I'm not going to have a chance to test this patch until next week but I 
will let you know what the results are.

Tom