Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:47:54 -0300 From: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, shih@math.jussieu.fr, Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: watchdog network card Message-ID: <200603280747.55047.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20060328104007.GD87799@gurney.reilly.home> References: <20060327093011.GA21070@math.jussieu.fr> <4427E3B1.3020704@kernel32.de> <20060328104007.GD87799@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:40, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > That page points out that you need to re-compile your kernel > with options DEVICE_POLLING, the OP should make sure that he > does that, too. > > > > I don't understand : You think is better to put my card in polling mo= de > > > or not ? > > > > you can give it a try > > ifconfig $interface polling > > or > > ifconfig $interface -polling > > to disable polling... > > After the last rebuild on my amd64-x2 box, both the nve ethernet > on the motherboard and the dc ethernet that I had been using to > work around other problems in the nve driver stopped working in > this way. DEVICE_POLLING and ifconfig...polling has got me > going again. I thoroughly recommend it. > nve does not run polling mode but dc does I guess you have an IRQ conflict, nve and dc on the same hw interrupt, and= =20 that setting dc in polling mode worked around this problem then you could check vmstat -i with and without polling enabled to see it Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br
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