On 10/28/07, Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: > >> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Brett Glass wrote: > >>> I would like to request that some useful work on networking be MFCed from > >>> -CURRENT to -STABLE in time for the release of FreeBSD 6.3. > >> > >> The thing that's worried me, following only [EMAIL PROTECTED] traffic, > >> were the reports about the new em driver (6.6.6?) causing hangs and other > >> problems with people who have been updating RELENG_6 - have those who had > >> those problems seen their issues resolved? I've got remote boxes using > >> em that I can't risk making inaccessible and can't test locally. > > > > All my problems with watchdog timeouts and em 6.6.6 occurred when em shared > > interrupt with USB but I don't know if it's MB, em or usb that's the > > problem. > > Removing USB from the kernel or switching to polling and the driver works > > just fine. > > > > The fact that one of my test machines didn't have any problems was because > > it > > had no USB in it's kernel. I had removed USB as I had problems with watchdog > > timeouts with the bge driver when I first upgraded to the D915GAV MB ages > > ago. The bge also shared interrupt with USB. > > Thanks. /var/run/dmesg.boot says my em0 and em1 don't share an IRQ with > USB or anyone else, so sounds like I'm in the clear, yay. But it still > seems like something the vendor (Intel?) should be looking into before a > another release on RELENG_6 is cut - even if USB is the culprit, it > sounded like the problems started for em users when the driver was updated > from 6.2.9 to 6.6.6.
When I have an easy-to-repro problem I can generally fix it in short order. The problem is this is not something that I've repro'd. I am aware of the reports, and I'm always interested in helpful data, I will have my test engineer work overtime (hear that Steve :) to get a repro this week. Keep those cards and letter coming :) Jack _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
