Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 22:38:30 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Miles Lubin <mlubin@junker.org> Subject: Re: sk0: watchdog timeout Message-ID: <20060505203830.GA9527@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060505202511.S54242@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <20060505124058.N25705@junker.org> <20060505192954.GA8995@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060505202511.S54242@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
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On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:26:54PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote.. > On Fri, 5 May 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > >On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:03:55PM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote.. > >>My motherboard has a built-in ethernet port that is handled by the sk > >>driver. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RC on amd64. When the network card is > >>under high load, it often kills any current connections and leaves the > >>message "sk0: watchdog timeout" in dmesg. I've seen previous posts on > >>this > >>issue, but the problem doesn't seem to be resolved. This issue makes > >>these > >>network cards unusable in production environments. > >> > >>Relevent dmesg output: > >>skc0: <Marvell Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem > >>0xfbb00000-0xfbb03fff ir > >>q 17 at device 10.0 on pci0 > >>skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9) > >>sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0 > > > >I had a similar event last night, on a P4 on an Asus P4P800. The current > >driver is much less prone to this lockup problem than it used to be. In > >my > >case it does not have to be in a high-load situation, it appears to happen > >rather randomly (and *very* infrequently) > > > >FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #2: Thu > >May > >4 22:37:22 CEST 2006 > > The updated driver has been in HEAD for some days and the problem > should be fixed there thanks to Pyun. See last commits to src/sys/dev/sk/* Once it gets MFC-ed to 6 I will give it another try. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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