Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:01:14 +1000 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: network slowness/freez-up since update 10/11 Message-ID: <416EB0DA.6040504@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <200410141817.16391.max@love2party.net> References: <E1CI4zq-000G8J-00@hetzner.co.za> <200410141817.16391.max@love2party.net>
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Max Laier wrote: >>>>There appears to bea problem with if_de cards and Giant-free operation. >>>>I'm working with John Baldwin to try and diagnose it. Could you try >>>>putting debug.mpsafenet=0 in /boot/loader.conf and reboot to confirm >>>>that this is what's going on? >>> >>>The de(4) driver is a bit of a mess as regards locking. >>>I had a look at this back in June/July but no longer have the hardware. >>>It would probably be best to bring it under IFF_NEEDSGIANT. >> >>I have a >> >>de0: <Digital 21041 Ethernet> port 0xe800-0xe87f mem 0xea001000-0xea00107f >>irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci0 de0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >>de0: DEC DE450-CA 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 >>de0: Ethernet address: 00:00:f8:30:dd:c2 >>de0: if_start running deferred for Giant >> >>that is no longer in use. If it will be of help, I'll mail it to >>you (you'll need to give me your shipping address). I'm pretty sure I have one or two of of these cards kicking around amongst my spares. If anyone in Australia is interested in this for the purposes of testing & debugging this, you're most welcome to it -- email me off-list. I'd ship overseas but I suspect the cost in doing so would be more than the cost of the card... :-) Cheers Antony
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