Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:40:03 +0200 From: Nikolay Pavlov <quetzal@zone3000.net> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em driver testing Message-ID: <20061108144003.GA43734@zone3000.net> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0611062242h42b1bde6w711e9a5039ed1a90@mail.gmail.com> References: <68011C68-0962-4946-88E1-F36EE7C707DA@redstarling.com> <20061106221219.GA66676@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <041201c701f9$37b2aed0$9603a8c0@claylaptop> <2a41acea0611061614n478efe77y82c0ebc2e1b01e19@mail.gmail.com> <d763ac660611062047n67058489jeca8d4c79e8c7490@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea0611062242h42b1bde6w711e9a5039ed1a90@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday, 6 November 2006 at 22:42:18 -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > On 11/6/06, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > >Just out of curiousity - why wasn't the offending MPSAFE related > >changes to em just reverted after discovering the em instability? The > >driver -was- stable a couple of months ago, no? > > Actually it was not. Some reports have cited problems back > to 6.0 or before. Well i have 5.5 box with very similar symptomatic :) I do not see watchdog timeouts on it, but a lot of UP/DOWN events. > > The watchdog design was fundamentally flawed from an SMP > point of view and needed to be changed. > > We also didnt want to go backwards if possible. My Intel driver > had support for new hardware that was good to pick up. > > There's lots of new stuff coming too, so stay tuned :) After 48 hours of production running there is no watchdog timeouts on my 6.2 SMP server with your patch. Thanks for all who working on this. > > Jack > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ====================================================================== - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<----------------------------------- ======================================================================
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