From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 03:04:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C0A16A400 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 03:04:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from llwang@llwang.org) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800A213C457 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 03:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from llwang@llwang.org) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so814969ugh for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 20:04:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.190.10 with SMTP id n10mr978354huf.1179715194256; Sun, 20 May 2007 19:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.121.6 with HTTP; Sun, 20 May 2007 19:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:39:54 -0500 From: "Li-Lun \"Leland\" Wang" Sender: llwang@llwang.org To: pyunyh@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20070521010944.GB36838@cdnetworks.co.kr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070520174124.GA14987@Athena.infor.org> <20070521010944.GB36838@cdnetworks.co.kr> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7ae04e10351785e8 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msk watchdog timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 03:04:31 -0000 On 5/20/07, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:41:24AM +0800, Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang) wrote: > > I just installed 7.0-current as of May 3 on my new computer that comes > > with an on-board Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet. Every now and then > > if the network throughput comes near several hundred kbytes, I get the > > msk0 watchdog timeout messages: > > > > kernel: msk0: watchdog timeout > > msk0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering > > > > Although it says recovering, the interface never comes back alive. > > The above message indicates the driver sent all pending transmission > requests but the driver didn't receive corresponding Tx completion > interrupts. Not recovering from the watchdog timeout means there are > another issues on the driver. However as disabling MSI fixed the > issue, I guess it's not fault of msk(4) and it comes from bad/broken > MSI implementation of your system. I guess it's time to add your > chipset to a PCI quirk table in order to blacklist it. I do reckon that MSI doesn't work on earlier Intel chipsets. Mine is P965 (on a gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 rev 1.3), which I suppose is recent enough to support MSI, isn't it? Or could there be other problems possible? -- llwang