Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:08:08 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Li-Lun Leland Wang <llwang@infor.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msk watchdog timeout Message-ID: <20070521040808.GD36838@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <b680ed60705201939i4f54e332t731dd5e3b466a7ce@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070520174124.GA14987@Athena.infor.org> <20070521010944.GB36838@cdnetworks.co.kr> <b680ed60705201939i4f54e332t731dd5e3b466a7ce@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:39:54PM -0500, Li-Lun Leland Wang wrote: > On 5/20/07, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:41:24AM +0800, Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang) wrote: > > > I just installed 7.0-current as of May 3 on my new computer that comes > > > with an on-board Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet. Every now and then > > > if the network throughput comes near several hundred kbytes, I get the > > > msk0 watchdog timeout messages: > > > > > > kernel: msk0: watchdog timeout > > > msk0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering > > > > > > Although it says recovering, the interface never comes back alive. > > > >The above message indicates the driver sent all pending transmission > >requests but the driver didn't receive corresponding Tx completion > >interrupts. Not recovering from the watchdog timeout means there are > >another issues on the driver. However as disabling MSI fixed the > >issue, I guess it's not fault of msk(4) and it comes from bad/broken > >MSI implementation of your system. I guess it's time to add your > >chipset to a PCI quirk table in order to blacklist it. > > I do reckon that MSI doesn't work on earlier Intel chipsets. Mine is > P965 (on a gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 rev 1.3), which I suppose is recent > enough to support MSI, isn't it? Or could there be other problems Using latest chipsets does not necessarily guarantee working MSI. > possible? > Yes. But I couldn't find possible issue on msk(4) yet. > -- llwang -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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