On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:09:11PM +0900, PYUN Yong-Hyeon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:31:01AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:17:58PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:26 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:13:00AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > > > > Each time my internet connection is under heavy lead it gets killed > > > > > after a minute of 10. I tried the following commands to get the > internet > > > > > back up, but nothing helped: > > > > > > > > > > /etc/rc.d/netif restart > > > > > ifconfig mynic down > > > > > ifconfig mynic up > > > > > > > > > > Even worse the last time I issued a '/etc/rc.d/netif restart' my > whole > > > > > system hardlocked (wasn't responding to capslock presses). So far the > > > > > only solution has been te reboot the computer. Is there any way I can > > > > > prevent my internet connection from getting killed? How do I get it > back > > > > > up after it has been killed? Thanks in advance! > > > > > > > > What network card are you using? Can you provide output from the > > > > following commands? > > > > > > > > dmesg > > > > vmstat -i > > > > netstat -in > > > > > > > I have a Marvell Yukon onboard nic. > > > > > > > > > Here's the output: > > > > > > netstat -in > > > > > > Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts > > > Oerrs Coll > > > msk0 1500 <Link#1> 29 0 25 0 0 > > > msk0 1500 : 0 - 5 - - > > > msk0 1500 192.168.2.0/2 192.168.2.111 16 - 14 - > > > - > > > fwe0* 1500 <Link#2> 0 0 0 0 0 > > > fwip0 1500 <Link#3> 0 0 0 0 0 > > > lo0 16384 <Link#4> 0 0 0 > > > 0 0 > > > lo0 16384 ::1/128 ::1 0 - 0 > > > - - > > > lo0 16384 ::1/64 0 - 0 - - > > > lo0 16384 127.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.1 0 - 0 > > > - - > > > > This looks okay. I see no interface errors, which is good. > > > > > vmstat -i > > > interrupt total rate > > > irq17: atapci0+ 13 0 > > > irq18: atapci1+ 1045 5 > > > irq20: uhci0 ehci0 13462 69 > > > irq21: fwohci0 3 0 > > > irq23: atapci3 102718 529 > > > cpu0: timer 386229 1990 > > > irq256: mskc0 46 0 > > > cpu1: timer 376453 1940 > > > Total 879969 4535 > > > > msk(4) appears to be using MSI/MSI-X here. > > > > One thing worth trying would be to disable MSI/MSI-X. You can disable > > these by adding the following to your /boot/loader.conf : > > > > hw.pci.enable_msix="0" > > hw.pci.enable_msi="0" > > The command above will disable all MSI/MSIX capability of box. > If the intention is to disable MSI feature of Marvell network > controller add "hw.msk.msi_disable="1" to /boot/loader.conf. > But I don't think you need to disable MSI capability unless you > have buggy PCI bridges. Without MSI msk(4) would normally share > interrupts with other devices(e.g. USB).
Based on your below conclusion (about this particular Marvell NIC and/or PHY being buggy), I don't think disabling MSI/MSI-X will do any good. > > > mskc0: <Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem > 0xff8fc000-0xff8fffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 > > > msk0: <Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon EC Id 0xb6 Rev 0x02> on mskc0 > > > msk0: Ethernet address: 00:1e:8c:5a:62:da > > > miibus0: <MII bus> on msk0 > > > e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY> PHY 0 on miibus0 > > > e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > > > mskc0: [FILTER] > > This controller is known to buggy one. See below. > > > Adding Yong-Hyeon PYUN to this thread, since he helps maintain the > > msk(4) driver. Yong-Hyeon, do you know of any conditions where heavy > > network I/O could cause msk(4) to lock up or stop transmitting traffic, > > or possibly hard-lock on ifconfig down/up? > > > > I think workaround for the controller bug was committed to HEAD(SVN > r183346). To original poster, would you try latest if_msk.c from > HEAD?(Just copy if_msk.c/if_mskreg.h from HEAD to your box.) As usual, thanks much for the explanation. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
