From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 6 18:40:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C6B1065672 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:40:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E45F8FC14 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so2728609wwb.13 for ; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:39:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=GkA5JzuexqnzWCe0v0qO2cFL5QNkwXc0Urk48O98uAg=; b=mXrZ0bRLKX7N5CKseuTUealFgu5mYf69MYFhi0VAsrRAkwqSUjLoytgCCU0OavYnQU ZoS+b4UyfG4KvjJNDLzAZ7fxcCUBW9N+TjOAnGbRZJoz4peuRGByDdH/hFwN7/WcYPdN JTY0JSm7nVZSXwvBQ2qE/Ny0wnpzoxTEgNAYg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=FlVA9+M+zR06KGeJ9juLP5h/0+u5hBtJhqySntMddB0JmF2OWf3Y4nUaBOXMnmNE3b m+9M2G2jsBCE83OAVspFBkJzQiwg0SE7kCjq4khlPgjaZo4MKzcZgLdYMKWZYmS+yqE2 kgzTGaT+nRPkczt1VYn9vCz/YQQeAx9HRXbzs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.162.202 with SMTP id y52mr1255560wek.76.1267900789201; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:39:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100306180029.GA99452@voi.aagh.net> References: <147432021003051648x1a1417dfp3c778922ea2c571f@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea1003051718r241ac3e9w6ceb37bde0128b43@mail.gmail.com> <20100306180029.GA99452@voi.aagh.net> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 10:39:48 -0800 Message-ID: <2a41acea1003061039s41dda598v563edf76d609c4f0@mail.gmail.com> From: Jack Vogel To: Jack Vogel , Nick Rogers , stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:40:00 -0000 I need a bit more context Nick. Is this a card that has been non-problematic on older releases and just showed a problem with 8.0 REL? Regards, Jack On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Jack Vogel (jfvogel@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Its using MSI? Given that its PCI-X I have no idea how robust MSI is, > > how bout you compile it with that disabled, use legacy IRQ and see > > if that makes any diff. > > I'm seeing similar issues with a quad port 82546EB card, and they're not > using MSI as far as I can tell; IRC 28-31. MSI's are >127 or so I > think? > > > Using TSO on anything pre-PCI Express is a bad idea, probably why > > its gotten a bad rep in the em driver. > > Don't see TSO in ifconfig options, but will issue an ifconfig em3 -tso > to see if it makes any difference. > > Interestingly I can pull 30-60MB/s to/from em0 (LAN) without any > problems, but pulling 5MB/s from em3 has repeatedly led to the interface > just going silent until I bounce it. Quite intermitent though, > sometimes it dies in the first second or two, sometimes I can pull down > 20GB without a hitch. > > -- > Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst > http://hur.st/ >