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Date:      Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:02:06 +0200
From:      Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel em (82574L and 82573L) problems: stopping on high network and cpu load (Watchdog timeout)
Message-ID:  <20150415160206.GA11834@bali>
In-Reply-To: <552E7324.90000@sentex.net>
References:  <20150413101626.GA47411@bali> <552BBF48.4090808@sentex.net> <20150414055445.GA54779@bali> <552D1DAC.9040104@sentex.net> <20150415054244.GA66168@bali> <552E7324.90000@sentex.net>

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On Wed, 15-Apr-2015 at 10:18:12 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 4/15/2015 1:42 AM, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> > On Tue, 14-Apr-2015 at 10:01:16 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >> On 4/14/2015 1:54 AM, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is this an em specific issue or should one avoid TSO generally
> >>> at the moment? That is, should I disable it on machines with
> >>> msk (and maybe other) interfaces as well?
> >>
> >> em specific I think.  This thread has some info on what might be going on
> >>
> >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-September/080081.html
> >
> > Very interesting, thanks. Until now (and without TSO), the problem
> > did not re-occur but I didn't hit the NFS heavily yet.
> 
> Hi,
> 	Just to be clear, the network hang has returned ? Or its still problem 
> free ?

Since I started to use -tso the problem did not come back (until now,
hope it stays like this). So it seems to be the correct workaround.

	-Andre



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