From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 2 22:26:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB4316A468 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 22:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from MMS3.broadcom.com (mms3.broadcom.com [216.31.210.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5118C13C45B for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 22:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidch@broadcom.com) Received: from [10.10.64.154] by MMS3.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (Email Firewall v6.3.1)); Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:25:52 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 20144BB6-FB76-4F11-80B6-E6B2900CA0D7 Received: by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix, from userid 47) id A249F2AF; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (mail-irva-8 [10.10.64.221]) by mail-irva-10.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA172AE; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (mail-irva-12.broadcom.com [10.10.64.146]) by mail-irva-8.broadcom.com (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id FKZ34140; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com ( nt-irva-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com [10.8.194.64]) by mail-irva-12.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A818B69CA4; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:25:48 -0700 (PDT) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:25:47 -0700 Message-ID: <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD90304571BF1@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: Thread-Topic: Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950) Thread-Index: Ace6+0/znxZ6AiN3QU6BEDSJwYiucAB/C1nQ References: <46680DB1.9050905@tomjudge.com> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030414B1EC@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <466873FA.9030800@tomjudge.com> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD9030423EE13@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <46823A78.7020501@tomjudge.com> <4683C578.6070009@tomjudge.com> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD90304571430@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <09BFF2FA5EAB4A45B6655E151BBDD903045714EF@NT-IRVA-0750.brcm.ad.broadcom.com> <4684D5C0.3040709@tomjudge.com> From: "David Christensen" To: "Sepherosa Ziehau" , "Tom Judge" X-WSS-ID: 6A97A4FA3AC18331180-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-net Subject: RE: Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:26:03 -0000 > Sorry for the top post, please try following patch: > http://people.freebsd.org/~sephe/if_bce.c.diff >=20 > This is probably the cause; I noticed it when bce(4) was=20 > ported to DragonFly. >=20 Thanks Sephe, I think you're on to something. I have some debug code in the driver to simulate mbuf allocation failures and when I enable that I start receiving the same error messages Tom reported (along with various kernel panics), but when I include your change the system seems to keep humming along. =20 I'll certainly add your code into an update shortly. Dave