On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:11:56AM -0700, David G Lawrence wrote:
> > I have a lot of supermicro motherboards and the newest ones have igb
> > chipsets; they've been quite a headache with respect to FreeBSD 8. I'm
> > running 8.2-RELEASE but have upgraded parts of my kernel to 8-RELENG (as
> > of a few months ago). Some of them work ok while others panic on bootup.
> > Upgrading to newer versions of the intel igb code fixes some but breaks
> > others. It's been frustrating.
> > 
> > While working on this today, I saw two different kernel panics:
> > 
> >     Could not setup receive structures
> >     m_getzone: m_getjcl: invalid cluster type
> 
>    I fixed this awhile back in my local sources. A 12 core Supermicro
> MB system I'm building here was hitting the bug 100% of the time during
> startup. Patch attached.
> 
> -DG
> 
> Dr. David G. Lawrence
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> 
> Index: if_igb.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/e1000/if_igb.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.21.2.20
> diff -c -r1.21.2.20 if_igb.c
> *** if_igb.c  29 Jun 2011 16:16:59 -0000      1.21.2.20
> --- if_igb.c  22 Sep 2011 10:04:31 -0000
> ***************
> *** 1278,1286 ****
>       /* Don't lose promiscuous settings */
>       igb_set_promisc(adapter);
>   
> -     ifp->if_drv_flags |= IFF_DRV_RUNNING;
> -     ifp->if_drv_flags &= ~IFF_DRV_OACTIVE;
> - 
>       callout_reset(&adapter->timer, hz, igb_local_timer, adapter);
>       e1000_clear_hw_cntrs_base_generic(&adapter->hw);
>   
> --- 1278,1283 ----
> ***************
> *** 1308,1313 ****
> --- 1305,1313 ----
>   
>       /* Don't reset the phy next time init gets called */
>       adapter->hw.phy.reset_disable = TRUE;
> + 
> +     ifp->if_drv_flags |= IFF_DRV_RUNNING;
> +     ifp->if_drv_flags &= ~IFF_DRV_OACTIVE;
>   }
>   
>   static void
> ***************
> *** 1490,1501 ****
>       E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, E1000_EIMC, que->eims);
>       ++que->irqs;
>   
>       IGB_TX_LOCK(txr);
>       more_tx = igb_txeof(txr);
>       IGB_TX_UNLOCK(txr);
>   
> -     more_rx = igb_rxeof(que, adapter->rx_process_limit, NULL);
> - 
>       if (igb_enable_aim == FALSE)
>               goto no_calc;
>       /*
> --- 1490,1505 ----
>       E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, E1000_EIMC, que->eims);
>       ++que->irqs;
>   
> +     if (!(adapter->ifp->if_drv_flags & IFF_DRV_RUNNING)) {
> +             return;
> +     }
> + 
> +     more_rx = igb_rxeof(que, adapter->rx_process_limit, NULL);
> + 
>       IGB_TX_LOCK(txr);
>       more_tx = igb_txeof(txr);
>       IGB_TX_UNLOCK(txr);
>   
>       if (igb_enable_aim == FALSE)
>               goto no_calc;
>       /*

CC'ing Jack Vogel.

Jack, any insights with regards to this patch?  This also touches on
what Adrian was mentioning as well, at least to some degree.

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, US |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.               PGP 4BD6C0CB |

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