From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 20:38:38 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 41A0C16A403 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 20:38:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2FD43D45 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 20:38:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k45KcUA3018809; Fri, 5 May 2006 22:38:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k45KcUe2009541; Fri, 5 May 2006 22:38:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k45KcUmc009540; Fri, 5 May 2006 22:38:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 22:38:30 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Message-ID: <20060505203830.GA9527@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20060505124058.N25705@junker.org> <20060505192954.GA8995@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060505202511.S54242@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060505202511.S54242@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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 20:38:38 -0000 On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:26:54PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote.. > 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/* Once it gets MFC-ed to 6 I will give it another try. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org