From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 19:12:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFAAC16A47B for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 19:12:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from kagate.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4AD43EED for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 19:09:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [10.0.0.110]) by kagate2.punkt.de with ESMTP id kA2J9Uqt011174 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:09:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kA2J9Ua9039521; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:09:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id kA2J9TG0039520; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:09:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ry93) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:09:29 +0100 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" To: Jack Vogel Message-ID: <20061102190929.GA39426@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <20061102094332.GA15810@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <2a41acea0611020943p9c91b6fv1e61cd9ea0082b77@mail.gmail.com> <20061102181059.GA23733@icarus.home.lan> <2a41acea0611021039j30b054a1w1462c9cc85bd661b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0611021039j30b054a1w1462c9cc85bd661b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, zenker@punkt.de Subject: Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts 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: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:12:41 -0000 Hi, Jack! On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:39:16AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > So why do I say what we see is bogus... because the watchdog is > firing even though we DON'T have tx hangs or descriptor shortages. > > I have a hack that rechecks the number of free descriptors in the > watchdog code and returns without resetting if we have max free. > > I am still trying to figure out how this can happen in the first place > however, I'd rather do something that didnt feel quite as much a > hack :) This is really good news. I'm confident you will come up with solution. Thanks for all the effort you, Kris and Scott are putting into this. Kind regards, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25 Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de