On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Neil Hoggarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I opened PR kern/122928 last month, describing my problems with Intel > PRO/1000 MT adaptor on 7-STABLE, with v6.7.3 of the em driver: every > so often the machine would get into a state where it would repeatedly > watchdog timeout the em0 interface, and the interface would stop > receiving packets. > > A few weeks ago I cvsupped a newer version of the 7-STABLE source > tree, after v6.9.0 of the em driver was MFCed. Since I started running > on the newer build watchdog timeouts appear to be followed by a system > panic rather than the freezing up of the interface. I have no hard > evidence but it "feels like" the panics are happening under the same > sort of circumstance that was previously triggering my watchdog > problem (basically network activity combined with CPU load). A similar > observation was made by Yani Karydis on the freebsd-stable mailing > list earlier in the month: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-May/042311.html > > I've now got a serial console set up, and I'm running a kernel with > DDB support compiled in. I managed to get the information below out of > the most recent panic. Is anyone able to use this to debug the > situation? What else might I try to gather useful information?
This is a helpful start, I'll stare at the code and see... sounds like some rx lock design issue. Thanks Neil, Jack _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
