From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 04:50:48 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 79ED316A400 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 04:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A06013C465 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 04:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1882703wra for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 21:50:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=s1J6LwPYXVYwC6ggTceewoEJmAVZC9vBaACnQKtyKRGcHWzKHDLL07w42/AZfe9WE9XOX618wM/J2d24hYyrKbVWYFGs7JxhC6qAsTKpM18VTcBEAU/gr+0KhkhXXMI8n1R520+x1wx4Hwl1WHT/UXluvGTLC577d4VyKFiR62g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AnucVHIqQFszzXc9NDTUD7dmZb2eznn0Lb1O9hd2PdjIssmnuyBTUqjKRmoyoCb/9vk7oFoRKRe+G0KC7jJMht9GWSoqDYOJeA83rSZaqGWq65W9WbaHky9ZP6b/kWiSOXDGNGgnHsPbwXwZra09eiddhj2EwknB5aisowFLZgk= Received: by 10.114.121.1 with SMTP id t1mr1344815wac.1179204647209; Mon, 14 May 2007 21:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.126.10 with HTTP; Mon, 14 May 2007 21:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a41acea0705142150l547fcf12o96d92ce5413948d5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:50:47 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Randy Bush" In-Reply-To: <46492CFC.6060506@psg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <17993.9973.237807.213217@roam.psg.com> <46492B3B.3020305@delphij.net> <46492CFC.6060506@psg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current , LI Xin Subject: Re: em driver 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 04:50:48 -0000 On 5/14/07, Randy Bush wrote: > LI Xin wrote: > > Randy Bush wrote: > >> could the em driver have been borked by the recent changes such that > >> once a day or so it went out for a few minutes to an hour? if so, did > >> the changes three days ago fix it? > > What do you mean by "went out"? According to my understanding 1.175 of > > if_em.c seems to fix the case where em(4) fails to attach on certain > > hardware... > > running fine. stops moving packets for five to 60 minutes. starts moving > packets again. all with no intervention, in rack, long way away. e.g. see > two stops in > > http://rip.psg.com/~randy/070514.em0-borkage.png > > no other hosts with same symptom, though three with em ethers updated at > same time. > > and, of course, it used to work fine until cvsup of May 8 12:03 (gmt). > everything always "used to work." :) What do you expect anyone to do based on this data??? For all I know someone in another room is turning off a switch every couple hours :) So if you want to report a problem, put yourself in the place of the engineer who has to fix it, what would you want... well, how about hardware description, pci config, log file output, I dont know, something that would give me a chance of knowing what the problem is. Jack