Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:14:26 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?E=DFer?= <se@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NIC card problems.... Message-ID: <20050124001425.GD241@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050123232738.GA78226@StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org> References: <20050123135753.14384@mail.net-virtual.com> <20050123232738.GA78226@StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 2005-Jan-24 00:27:38 +0100, Stefan Eßer wrote: >The TX threshold messages issued by the dc driver appear more as an >indication that the PCI bus is under severe load, than as a hint that >the dc driver is causing the reboots, IMHO. Under Tru64, I've seen Tulip cards report backoff to 1024 byte FIFO and then switching to store-and-forward. That's about 100µsec latency and nothing should be holding the PCI bus that long. I am inclined to believe that something is stuffed in the PCI interface logic in the NIC. -- Peter Jeremy
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