Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:37:13 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: re(4) lockups on a MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (7.0-BETA3 amd64) Message-ID: <20071129003713.GG10483@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <474D78CF.6040602@FreeBSD.org> References: <474A7F83.7080900@FreeBSD.org> <20071126092457.GE1025@cdnetworks.co.kr> <474D78CF.6040602@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:18:55PM +0100, Martin Matuska wrote: > Your patch makes this network card interesting. It is now working faster > and saving more resources :-) I hope it will find it's way at least into > -CURRENT > > The locukups might have been solved by your patch or by: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2007-November/084247.html > Yes. The scott's patch is very important one as re(4) also uses fast handler. > Anyway, I have now 2 days uptime without any network-card or storage > problems at all. > Glad to hear that. :) I'll commit it after 7.0 goes out. > Pyun YongHyeon schrieb: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:10:43AM +0100, Martin Matuska wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am using a MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (MS-7368) mainboard with 7.0-BETA3 in > > > amd64 mode at a german dedicated server provider. > > > The mainboard has a onboard re(4) ethernet controller. I experience a > > > very strange behaiviour: > > > > > > When there are large transfers on the onboard SATA controller the re(4) > > > controller starts to have packet loss. > > > > > > This packet loss does not stop when there is no more load on ata(4). > > > With another high load (like doing a full-system backup) the packet loss > > > keeps increasing up to 90% and more - the system is not accesible over > > > the internet anymore, packets get lost, SSH sessions or http requests > > > get stale, I have to restart the system. > > > > > > I experience no kernel panics. Another (maybe related) problem that > > > occurs (but does not effect system responsiveness) is described in: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-November/080525.html > > > > > > Here is some information about the system: > > > > > > dmesg (boot -v): > > > http://test.vx.sk/MS-7368/dmesg.txt > > > > > > pciconf -lcv: > > > http://test.vx.sk/MS-7368/pciconf.txt > > > > > > dmidecode: > > > http://test.vx.sk/MS-7368/dmidecode.txt > > > > > > I don't understand why this happens and would like to help debugging > > > > Me either. I have a WIP version that fixes other issues on re(4) but > > I'm not sure whether it mitigates your issue. The overhauled re(4) > > supports larger descriptors(256 instead of 64) and TSO. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_re.c > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_rlreg.h > > > > > this issue. > > > > > -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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