From owner-cvs-all Thu May 16 13:16:59 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from host217-39-109-120.in-addr.btopenworld.com (host217-39-109-120.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.39.109.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA68537B401; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by host217-39-109-120.in-addr.btopenworld.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A28F6490; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:16:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:16:41 +0100 From: Dominic Marks To: Maxime Henrion Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Mike Silbersack Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_vr.c Message-ID: <20020516211641.A33101@host217-39-109-120.in-addr.btop> References: <200205151705.g4FH5SS69051@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516200706.GA496@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020516200706.GA496@elvis.mu.org>; from mux@freebsd.org on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:07:06PM -0700 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 On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:07:06PM -0700, Maxime Henrion wrote: > 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. This seems to relate to a slightly different problem on the same theme. I'll try this patch on my test system and see how it goes. > Thanks, > Maxime > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message Thanks! -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message