From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 13 19:07:27 2011 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 C22FB106564A for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5875B8FC17 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so5387830wwg.31 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:07:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=1X0jizIkaJdogzSmYyABtUd7EdJTBqhQ7x3h8zeb8ow=; b=NM4aNjXm6ZHDqIi6avonIyIqZ7KdMst1HdHDSQ7LN165Zylz4LTG5EmnRutSrYogiu Ixjv5Z63BkeCljqgAlnXq77edAVCxMDmucYPC0SHtx8neulmM3eD2iegSIIcfAsnAD7d tQZ32IGWtQNvH71hg8GoIvYtewAa/O06cDUM0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.109.106 with SMTP id hr10mr22697364wib.9.1321209611251; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.95.229 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:40:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EC00ACF.4050803@digiware.nl> References: <4EBB97DF.3020803@digiware.nl> <20111110095041.GA73812@icarus.home.lan> <4EBBBACE.3020900@digiware.nl> <4EC00ACF.4050803@digiware.nl> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:40:11 -0800 Message-ID: From: Jack Vogel To: Willem Jan Withagen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" , Joshua Boyd , "Vogel, Jack" , Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: em0 watchdog timeout 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: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:07:27 -0000 On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 2011-11-10 23:25, Joshua Boyd wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Willem Jan Withagen > > wrote: >> >> em0@pci0:0:25:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10bd15d9 >> chip=0x10bd8086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation' >> device = 'Intel 82566DM Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (82566DM)' >> class = network >> subclass = ethernet >> bar [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xdf900000, size >> 131072, enabled >> bar [14] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xdf924000, size 4096, >> enabled >> bar [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x1820, size 32, enabled >> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 >> cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message >> cap 13[e0] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP >> >> >> And note that this problem only raises it nasty head very few weeks... >> >> >> I have had the same problem, as shown here: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/**pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-** >> June/063092.html >> >> According to your pciconf output, your card either doesn't support >> MSI-X, or you have MSI-X disabled. >> >> Check the hw.pci.enable_msix sysctl and make sure that it is set to 1. >> Also check to make sure there aren't any BIOS settings blocking MSI-X. >> >> Apparently the older Intel gigabit cards don't support MSI-X, and as >> such get starved. >> > > Upgraded to a new bios, but that does not help either. > > Now the trick question will be: > IF I get a new servertype PCI-E ethernet card, would that get me > an MSI-X ethernet device. > > There is no 'trick' to it :) The only MSIX capable device that uses the em driver is 82574. But if you go with igb (82575 and beyond) they are all MSIX and multiqueue capable. Jack