Hi,
>>- Bring up /sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c in your favorite editor. - Search for
>>the following line of code:
>>
>>CSR_WRITE_4(sc, BGE_BMAN_MBUFPOOL_LEN, 0x18000);
>>
>>It should appear twice in the bge_blockinit() function. - Change
>>0x18000 to 0x1 in both places. - Recompile your kernel and/or
Hi Bill,
>The BCM5704 has a smaller memory buffer space than earlier NICs, and the
>bge(4) driver up to 5.1-RELEASE failed to take this into account. I
>checked in a fix for this to 5-CURRENT and 4-STABLE yesterday. You can
>apply the following workaround on your 5.1-RELEASE systems to fix this
>(
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with the Broadcom BCM5704C (Dual Gigabit Ethernet) which
> is used by one of our servers (newsfeeder with 5.1-RELEASE and diablo).
> The interfaces go down frequently if they have traffic (diablo started)
> and I see the following kernel messages:
>
> kernel: bge0: w
I´ve seen lost interrupts with 5.1 with em driver and the ata driver seems to suffer
from this also when doing detach/attach. Getting a old kernel module from 5.0 and
recompiling
it for 5.1 does not help with the issue so I suspect a more generic issue with
interrupts.
Pete
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