From owner-cvs-all Thu May 16 13: 7:10 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1187437B405; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1920) id E7518AE1FE; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:07:06 -0700 From: Maxime Henrion To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Cc: Mike Silbersack Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_vr.c Message-ID: <20020516200706.GA496@elvis.mu.org> References: <200205151705.g4FH5SS69051@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205151705.g4FH5SS69051@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Silbersack wrote: > silby 2002/05/15 10:05:28 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/pci if_vr.c > Log: > Enhance the use of the watchdog timer in this driver so that it will > allow recovery from transmission lockups which occur in the middle > of the descriptor list, rather than just at the beginning. > > For some unknown reason, Rhine II chips have a tendency to stop > transmitting while under heavy load, possibly due to collisions. > Whether this behavior is due to a hardware bug or a driver glitch > is unknown as of now. Could you take a look at kern/37929 ? It provides a patch which fixes the lockups themselves according to its author. Thanks, Maxime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message