From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 22:12:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D77F16A47C for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:12:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frode@nordahl.net) Received: from smtp1.powertech.no (smtp1.powertech.no [195.159.0.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B017443D5D for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:12:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frode@nordahl.net) Received: from [195.159.148.126] (dhcp7.xu.nordahl.net [195.159.148.126]) by smtp1.powertech.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7B280F4; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:12:28 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20061005200552.GA80162@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <45244053.6030706@samsco.org> <20061005200552.GA80162@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6C8E1CE8-9A49-4C2B-BA6F-085CDDD6DB73@nordahl.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Frode Nordahl Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:12:28 +0200 To: Kris Kennaway X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em, bge, network problems survey. 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: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:12:44 -0000 On 5. okt. 2006, at 22.05, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: >> All, >> >> I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem >> reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further. >> I ask all of you who are having problems to take a minute to fill >> out this survey and return it to Kris Kennaway (on cc:) and myself. >> Thanks. >> >> 1. Are you experiencing network hangs and/or "timeout" messages on >> the >> console? If yes, please provide a _brief_ description of the >> problem. > > OK, next question, to all em users: > > If your em device is using a shared interrupt, and you are NOT > experiencing timeout problems when using this device, please let me > know: [ snip ] > So far all of the em problems I have seen involve shared interrupts, > and conversely all em systems I have seen that do not have timeout > problems are not shared. I am sorry to say that I have trouble with a system that does not have shared interrupt on the em. It does share PCI bus with the two onboard ahc's though, but that hardly has anything to do with it. # vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq4: sio0 398 0 irq6: fdc0 10 0 irq16: ahc0 16 0 irq17: ahc1 16 0 irq20: amr0 1439521 1 irq21: em0 5110499 3 irq31: acpi0 134252 0 cpu0: timer 2689289991 1999 Total 2695974703 2004 # pciconf -l |grep pci1 ahc0@pci1:4:0: class=0x010000 card=0x00cf8086 chip=0x00cf9005 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 ahc1@pci1:4:1: class=0x010000 card=0x00cf8086 chip=0x00cf9005 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 pcib2@pci1:10:0: class=0x060400 card=0x000000dc chip=0x00261011 rev=0x05 hdr=0x01 em0@pci1:11:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10048086 chip=0x10048086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 -- Frode Nordahl