Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:24:46 +0900 From: YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE + bge0 == watchdog timeout Message-ID: <20130307022446.GB3108@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <513713C2.1000007@norma.perm.ru> References: <D557DE29-DED8-4B89-9D1C-171FC17D435E@hub.org> <201302241106.42477.vegeta@tuxpowered.net> <20130225082042.GB1426@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <512CF97B.8030805@norma.perm.ru> <20130227020123.GA3581@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <512DE968.4020409@quip.cz> <20130228053558.GA1474@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <5136D89D.4000902@norma.perm.ru> <20130306062658.GC1483@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <513713C2.1000007@norma.perm.ru>
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:00:34PM +0600, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > Hi. > > On 06.03.2013 12:26, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > > If you were using latest stable/8, the result would be same on > > CURRENT. > > How frequently do you see the watchdog timeouts? Is there way to > > reproduce it? > > Would you show me the output of dmesg (bge(4) and brgphy(4) only) > > and "pciconf -lcbv"? > I upgraded one om my routers 2 days ago to 8.3-STABLE, and got today a > freeze. Uptime was less than a day. > I have like dozens of these IBM system x3250, all of them run various > 8.2-STABLE's, that's why I worry that much. I don't know if this is What was previous SVN revision number on that machine? The support for 5718/5719/5720 was merged to stable/8 about 3 months ago. > triggered by some of my actions. These routers run gre/ipsec, dirrerent > routing stuff (quagga, bird), proxies and pf. In 2011/early 2012 I saw > similar watchdog issues on these machines, and I disabled the tso on > them. I don't know whether this is a coincidence or it really helps, but > after that I didn't see these watchdog issues until today. I'm not aware of TSO issue on your controller. pf(4) had TSO issue but I guess it was fixed long time ago. > > I've also discovered that this particular server is running some old > bioses/firmwares including the fact that it misses some NetXtreme > updates available from IBM. Would applying such updates resolve the > situation ? > Updating etherent controller firmware is always good idea. But I'm not sure whether this address the issue. > I am ok with that fact that I cannot run ipmi/sol on these machines, but > it would be nice if this watchdog issue could be somehow resolved. Actually this is the first report after the merge which seems to break bge(4). > Furthermore, I have some spare machines that I can provide full access > to, including ipkvm stuff. Since the machine is only partially freezing, > I cannot even rely on the ichwd and watchdogd to reboot it. Sorry no clue yet. > > pciconf (there's two controllers in this server, I use the first, but > anyway): Thanks for the info. [...]
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