From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 20:30:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8460B16A403 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 20:30:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02FC43D45 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 20:30:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EEB1FFDBC; Fri, 5 May 2006 22:30:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id A40C21FFD0B; Fri, 5 May 2006 22:30:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418124448D6; Fri, 5 May 2006 20:26:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 20:26:54 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: Wilko Bulte In-Reply-To: <20060505192954.GA8995@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20060505202511.S54242@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <20060505124058.N25705@junker.org> <20060505192954.GA8995@freebie.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Miles Lubin Subject: Re: sk0: watchdog timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 20:30:11 -0000 On Fri, 5 May 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:03:55PM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote.. >> My motherboard has a built-in ethernet port that is handled by the sk >> driver. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RC on amd64. When the network card is >> under high load, it often kills any current connections and leaves the >> message "sk0: watchdog timeout" in dmesg. I've seen previous posts on this >> issue, but the problem doesn't seem to be resolved. This issue makes these >> network cards unusable in production environments. >> >> Relevent dmesg output: >> skc0: port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem >> 0xfbb00000-0xfbb03fff ir >> q 17 at device 10.0 on pci0 >> skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9) >> sk0: on skc0 > > I had a similar event last night, on a P4 on an Asus P4P800. The current > driver is much less prone to this lockup problem than it used to be. In my > case it does not have to be in a high-load situation, it appears to happen > rather randomly (and *very* infrequently) > > FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #2: Thu May > 4 22:37:22 CEST 2006 The updated driver has been in HEAD for some days and the problem should be fixed there thanks to Pyun. See last commits to src/sys/dev/sk/* -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT