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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:39:16 -0400
From:      Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com>
To:        Gareth Wyn Roberts <g.w.roberts@glyndwr.ac.uk>
Cc:        Alnis Morics <alnis.morics@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 10.1-STABLE bce: Watchdog timeout occurred
Message-ID:  <186A4B92-CA84-45DD-8710-307204BD8B7F@distal.com>
In-Reply-To: <55365A57.60509@glyndwr.ac.uk>
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On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:10 , Gareth Wyn Roberts =
<g.w.roberts@glyndwr.ac.uk> wrote:
> This may be caused by DMA alignment problems.
> See =
https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D145859+0+archive/2015/free=
bsd-stable/20150419.freebsd-stable for a recent thread about the msk =
driver.  The msk maintainer Yonghyeon Pyun has opted for super safe =
options of 32K alignment!
>=20
> It's a long shot, but you could try increasing BCE_DMA_ALIGN and/or =
BCE_RX_BUF_ALIGN in the include file if_bcereg.h, say up to 4096, to see =
whether it makes any difference.

  Well, after making that change, I was able to confirm that the problem =
doesn't seem to occur.  However, in trying to verify the problem on an =
unmodified kernel, I've rebooted a GENERIC from r281672 without that =
change, and am also not seeing the problem.  :-/  I'm not sure whether =
the gremlins have "fixed" something, or if I was just too critical in my =
initial analysis.

  For now I'll take that change out of my tree and run without it.  If I =
see the flapping again, I'll confirm that it's repeatable, then change =
the alignments as suggested and see if I see a change.

  Thanks all...

                                         - Chris


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