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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:45:42 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Constant watchdog timeouts on em0 with today's -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <1164267942.94313.55.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <45654F26.7080800@samsco.org>
References:  <1164266670.94313.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <45654F26.7080800@samsco.org>

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On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 00:35 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > I just synced with today's -CURRENT, and rendered by port build machine
> > useless.  With minimal network traffic (just logging in via SSH with a
> > TCP NFS-mounted home) I get an immediate watchdog timeout on em0, and
> > they just keep coming as I type in the session.  The machine is
> > otherwise idle while this is occurring.
> >=20
> > I am currently running:
> >=20
> > FreeBSD fugu.marcuscom.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #83: Thu Nov
> > 23 01:51:05 EST 2006
> > root@fugu.marcuscom.com:/space2/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU  i386
> >=20
> > I was running:
> >=20
> > FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #80: Fri Nov 10 15:53:48 EST 2006
> >     marcus@fugu.marcuscom.com:/space2/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU
> >=20
> > Which provided stable networking.  Here are my verbose dmesg and kernel
> > config.  Note: this machine has both am if_em and an mpt card.  Could
> > the recent MSI changes have exacerbated the em watchdog problem?  What
> > can I do (besides downgrade) to resolve this?  Thanks.
> >=20
> > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/fugu_dmesg.txt
> > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/fugu_kernel.txt
> >=20
> > Joe
>=20
> Have you followed the instructions in src/UPDATING on how to turn MSI
> off?

Man, do I feel stupid.  I completely overlooked UPDATING.  Indeed,
disabling MSI restores network stability.  Thanks, Scott.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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