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Date:      Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:59:43 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
Cc:        Clayton Milos <clay@milos.co.za>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, ke han <ke.han@redstarling.com>
Subject:   Re: em driver testing
Message-ID:  <45510FDF.201@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <4550FE11.2060002@rogers.com>
References:  <68011C68-0962-4946-88E1-F36EE7C707DA@redstarling.com><20061106221219.GA66676@hugo10.ka.punkt.de><041201c701f9$37b2aed0$9603a8c0@claylaptop>	<2a41acea0611061614n478efe77y82c0ebc2e1b01e19@mail.gmail.com>	<001601c702af$9d355940$9603a8c0@claylaptop> <4550FE11.2060002@rogers.com>

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Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Clayton Milos wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jack
>>
>>
>> I patched the driver and re-compiled the kernel and userland.
>>
>> All appears well with the em driver now. No more errors on it.
>> I am getting watchdog timeouts on the xl driver now though. It was 
>> happenning before at the same time as the em ones. Now I've passed a 
>> lot of traffic on the em interface but the xl interface gets watchdog 
>> errors. The em interface still works fine but the xl one is no usable 
>> after this.
> 
> 
> Has it not been established by someone that the problem is in freebsd 
> (scheduler iirc) and not the drivers themselves? This along with the 
> bge/bce wtachdog timeouts seems to confirm that.
> 

Mike,

If you have insight into the bce driver, I would highly appreciate if
you would share it.

Scott (the guy who fixed bce)




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