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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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