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Date:      Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:26:52 -0400
From:      Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Cc:        Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting@freebsd.lublin.pl>
Subject:   Re: bge(4) watchdog timeout with APIC 5.4-prerel setup with 64bit	PCIcards
Message-ID:  <200504081027.12643.mistry.7@osu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050408092820.GA80618@shellma.zin.lublin.pl>
References:  <20050318205028.GA45939@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> <20050318205635.GB45939@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> <20050408092820.GA80618@shellma.zin.lublin.pl>

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On Friday 08 April 2005 05:28 am, Pawel Malachowski wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:56:35PM +0100, Pawel Malachowski wrote:
> > > Machine B: 5.4-PRERELEASE, GENERIC, IBM (x225?), dual Xeon,
> > > 64bit PCI. HTT disabled, ACPI disabled, GIANT LOCK.
> > > . bge0 on board BCM5703
> > > . two 3Com bge{1,2} NICs BCM5701 (identical as in A, but in
> > > 64bit PCI slots) Cards connected to 100Mbps switch.
> > > This machine works just fine only when onboard bge0 NIC is
> > > being used. If I move vlans wih real traffic (only about
> > > 5-10Mbit/s) to bge1 or bge2, it will fail with watchdog timeout
> > > few times per day (sometimes few times per hour).
> > >
> > > Cables were replaced, switch was changed.
> > > SMP was disabled.
> > > System was updated from 5.3-RELEASE to latest RELENG_5.
> > >
> > > Nothing helps!
> > >
> > > I'm currently running UP GENERIC kernel with APIC disabled,
> > > seems to work fine (1 hour).
> >
> > Failed again...
> >
> > Mar 18 21:49:01 xxx kernel: bge2: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> > Mar 18 21:49:21 xxx last message repeated 2 times
> >
> > No idea, what else can I test?
> >
> >
> > bge1: <Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem
> > 0xf1000000-0xf100ffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci4 miibus1: <MII
> > bus> on bge1
> > brgphy1: <BCM5701 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1
> > brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> > 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> >
> > bge2: <Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem
> > 0xf1010000-0xf101ffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci4 miibus2: <MII
> > bus> on bge2
> > brgphy2: <BCM5701 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus2
> > brgphy2:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> > 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
>
> FYI: removing one of these 3Com cards (leaving only one 64bit PCI
> card) didn't help.
> Since these cards work just fine as 32-bit PCI on another PC, I
> guess this may be hardware incompatibility (IBM x225 + 3Com on
> 64bit slot) or bge(4) is broken somehow.
>
> > This onboard card works without problems.
> >
> > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x1002> mem
> > 0xf2000000-0xf200ffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci3 miibus0: <MII
> > bus> on bge0
> > brgphy0: <BCM5703 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
> > brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> > 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
Try reducing the buffer in the driver.  See=20
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-August/001203.html

=2D-=20
Anish Mistry

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