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Date:      Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:20:49 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?w5Z6a2FuIEtJUklL?= <ozkan.kirik@gmail.com>, Jan Koum <jan@whatsapp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em0 with latest driver hangs again and again (without "Watchdog timeout" message!)
Message-ID:  <4D6D00C1.1040805@sentex.net>
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I have been running with 7.2.2 and so far so good.  However, its hard to
say in my case as the box I would only periodically see the issue.

Jan, have you had a chance to try 7.2.2 ?  You seemed to hit the issue
the most frequently. There are also some alternate patches in

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=150516

But I think Jack said 7.2.2 takes a similar strategy ?


	---Mike



On 2/24/2011 3:03 AM, Özkan KIRIK wrote:
> Thank you. I'll test and share my experiences with you.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is the 7.2.2 tarball. IMPORTANT: if you use this DO NOT try and put it
>> into your kernel source tree, it will break that. What you must do is config
>> the
>> em driver OUT of your kernel, then untar this, build it standalone, and then
>> load it.
>>
>> This is just a temporary thing, once I have data to decide on this change vs
>> the earlier one it will get integrated.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>> 2011/2/23 Özkan KIRIK <ozkan.kirik@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How can we get 7.2.2. version of if_em driver ?
>>> I wanna test it.
>>>
>>> I can help you for testing changes to em drivers.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ozkan KIRIK
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello, Mike.
>>>> You wrote 23 февраля 2011 г., 14:16:28:
>>>>
>>>>>>   Driver from "em driver, 82574L chip, and possibly ASPM" thread
>>>>>>  doesn't help, really: it seems, that it decrease frequincy of hangs,
>>>>> Looking at your sysctl output, you are not using the test drivers
>>>>> posted
>>>>> in that thread.
>>>>  Yes, as it doesn't help, I've reverted to "stock" one.
>>>>
>>>>> If you want to try 7.1.9-test, you can download it at
>>>>> http://www.tancsa.com/if_em-8.c for releng_8.
>>>>  I've tried it. It has worked without hangs for 7-8 days, and after
>>>> that hangs 2 times in 3 days with "7.1.9-test"  :(
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
>>>>
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>>
> 
> 


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