On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:54:35AM +0200, Michal Mertl wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:14:27PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > I'm seeing some patterns here with all of the network driver problem > > > reports, but I need more information to help narrow it down further. > > > I ask all of you who are having problems to take a minute to fill > > > out this survey and return it to Kris Kennaway (on cc:) and myself. > > > Thanks. > > > > > > 1. Are you experiencing network hangs and/or "timeout" messages on the > > > console? If yes, please provide a _brief_ description of the problem. > > > > OK, next question, to all em users: > > > > If your em device is using a shared interrupt, and you are NOT > > experiencing timeout problems when using this device, please let me > > know. > > I haven't seen any timeout message in long time but I experience frozen > network (and also the already reported panic when doing ifconfig down/up > then).
Are these details in a PR? > I have also seen strange problem which may be completely unrelated: When > doing 'find . -ls' on SMB mounted drive - find was spitting the contents > of the drive but never finishes. Network seemed dead but when I > interrupted find with Ctrl-C I got the replies to the pings sent when it > was running (e.g. thousands ms) - this looks like something was > preventing RX to work and the packets were just queued somewhere. I > belive I should be able to easily reproduce it. > > genius# vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > irq0: clk 43784465 1000 > irq1: atkbd0 66248 1 > irq5: pcm0 5877 0 > irq8: rtc 5603682 128 > irq9: acpi0 8820 0 > irq11: fwohci0 em* 205749 4 > irq12: psm0 586848 13 > irq14: ata0 340844 7 > irq15: ata1 61 0 > Total 50602594 1155 > > I don't think I remember debug.mpsafenet tunable being mentioned in the > threads about the problems. It prevents all the problems on my system > (UP non-APIC system), including the SMB issue mentioned above. I suspect both of your problems are some unrelated issue. I'd need root access & a test setup before I can say more though. Kris
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