Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:21:03 -0800 From: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nve(4) patch - please test! Message-ID: <20060105002103.GB98594@tnn.dglawrence.com> In-Reply-To: <20060104183612.A88093@cons.org> References: <20051209175607.C23668@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20051210125221.M23668@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20051216173106.B31803@cons.org> <20060104183612.A88093@cons.org>
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> Since I sent the mail below I had to discover that the new driver
> has a problem when no cable is plugged in, at least on my Asus board.
>
> It doesn't only run into timeouts, during some of these timeout the
> machine or at least the keyboard hangs for about a minute.
>
> Is there anything I can do to help debug this?
I ran into this problem recently as well and spent some time diagnosing
it. It's not that the cable isn't plugged in - rather it happens whenever
the traffic levels are low.
The problem is that the nvidia-supplied portion of the driver is defering
the releasing of the completed transmit buffers and this occasionally
results in if_timer expiring, causing the driver watchdog routine to be
called ("device timeout"). The watchdog routine resets the card and the
nvidia-supplied code sits in a high-priority loop waiting for the card
to reset. This can take many seconds and your system will be hung until
it completes.
I have a work-around patch for the problem that I've attached to this
email. It simply disables the watchdog. A real fix would involve accounting
for the outstanding transmit buffers differently (or perhaps not at all -
e.g. always attempt to call the nvidia-supplied code and if a queue-full
error occurs, then wait for an interrupt before trying to queue more
transmit packets).
-DG
David G. Lawrence
President
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Index: if_nve.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/nve/if_nve.c,v
retrieving revision 1.7.2.8
diff -c -r1.7.2.8 if_nve.c
*** if_nve.c 25 Dec 2005 21:57:03 -0000 1.7.2.8
--- if_nve.c 5 Jan 2006 00:12:45 -0000
***************
*** 943,949 ****
return;
}
/* Set watchdog timer. */
! ifp->if_timer = 8;
/* Copy packet to BPF tap */
BPF_MTAP(ifp, m0);
--- 943,949 ----
return;
}
/* Set watchdog timer. */
! ifp->if_timer = 0;
/* Copy packet to BPF tap */
BPF_MTAP(ifp, m0);
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