From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 13:38:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A12816A407 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:38:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16B143D5F for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:38:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from riemann.math.jussieu.fr (riemann.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.7/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k9HDch7m057651 ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:38:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 164 Received: from grobner1.math.jussieu.fr (galois2.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.117]) by riemann.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k9HDcgRI080815 ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:38:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from galois2.math.jussieu.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by grobner1.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.7/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k9HDcgDe006795 ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:38:42 +0200 Received: (from jas@localhost) by galois2.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k9HDcS0k006683; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:38:28 +0200 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:38:28 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20061017133828.GJ22684@math.jussieu.fr> References: <45244053.6030706@samsco.org> <20061005200552.GA80162@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <20061005200552.GA80162@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Score: 0.001 () UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.157.13.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.164]); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:38:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/2038/Tue Oct 17 00:48:19 2006 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 4534DCE3.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em, bge, network problems survey. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shih@math.jussieu.fr List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:38:57 -0000 Le 05/10/2006 =E0 16:05:52-0400, Kris Kennaway a =E9crit > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > All, > >=20 > > I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem=20 > > reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further. > > I ask all of you who are having problems to take a minute to fill > > out this survey and return it to Kris Kennaway (on cc:) and myself. > > Thanks. > >=20 > > 1. Are you experiencing network hangs and/or "timeout" messages on the= =20 > > console? If yes, please provide a _brief_ description of the problem. >=20 > OK, next question, to all em users: >=20 > If your em device is using a shared interrupt, and you are NOT > experiencing timeout problems when using this device, please let me > know: >=20 > dalki# vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > irq4: sio0 2071 0 > irq6: fdc0 10 0 > irq14: ata0 47 0 > irq20: ahd0 21755 4 > irq23: em0 124751 23 <-- not a shared inte= rrupt > irq24: ahd1 15 0 > cpu0: timer 10453509 1999 > Total 10602158 2027 >=20 > tyan# vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > irq14: ata0 58 0 > irq16: em0 fxp1 332832 851 <-- shared interrupt > irq18: fxp0 973 2 > irq19: atapci1 132883 339 > cpu0: timer 774308 1980 > cpu1: timer 777136 1987 > Total 2018190 5161 >=20 > So far all of the em problems I have seen involve shared interrupts, > and conversely all em systems I have seen that do not have timeout > problems are not shared. >=20 Personnaly I've very lots of problem with my em0 card (Proliant ML 380) I've lots of em0 watchdog problem (the interface disapeare) and I dont use shared interrupt=20 [root@nfs3 ]# vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 2 0 irq4: sio0 29520 2 irq6: fdc0 87 0 irq15: ata1 47 0 irq16: uhci0 26848237 2063 irq17: bge0 1881736 144 irq24: mpt0 29 0 irq25: mpt1 17 0 irq26: fxp0 fxp1 2776380 213 irq48: isp0 1537121 118 irq72: ciss0 217837 16 irq76: em0 25144932 1932 irq77: em1 1818458 139 cpu0: timer 25996358 1997 Total 86250761 6628 [root@nfs3 ]#=20 Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 i=E8me =E9tage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Tue Oct 17 15:37:05 CEST 2006