Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:56:01 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] nve(4) locking cleanup Message-ID: <200511171256.04056.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20051117120533.057ddae0@64.7.153.2> References: <20051117010651.97608.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com> <200511171135.53903.jhb@freebsd.org> <6.2.3.4.0.20051117120533.057ddae0@64.7.153.2>
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On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:08 pm, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 11:35 AM 17/11/2005, John Baldwin wrote: > >Hmm, there are a couple of changes such as calling pfnInit() in attach() > > and calling pfnClearTXDesc() in nve_stop() that might be interesting. > > I've stuck those in my work tree and have made a seperate patch relative > > to HEAD if folks want to try them out: > > > >http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/nve_dffixes.patch > > On a RELENG_6 kernel with the drivers from HEAD with the above patch > applied, driver loaded as kld, > > the box does not seem to crash, but the nic does wedge > > nve0: link state changed to DOWN > nve0: link state changed to UP > nve0: link state changed to DOWN > nve0: link state changed to UP > nve0: device timeout (64) > nve0: link state changed to DOWN > nve0: link state changed to UP > nve0: link state changed to DOWN > nve0: link state changed to UP > > while generating a lot of 2 way traffic. > > This is a Tyan 939 board. > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xe400-0xe407 mem > 0xfebfc000-0xfebfcfff irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0 > nve0: Ethernet address 00:e0:81:58:91:fa > miibus2: <MII bus> on nve0 > ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus2 > ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, > 1000baseT-FDX, auto > nve0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:58:91:fa > nve0: [GIANT-LOCKED] Did it work before? Is the new behavior better or worse than the unpatched driver? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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