From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 04:24:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FFE16A400 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from omta04sl.mx.bigpond.com (omta04sl.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.93.156]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F98413C45A for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.132.228.157]) by omta04sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070410042446.LEV28583.omta04sl.mx.bigpond.com@oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:24:46 +0000 Received: from areilly.bpa.nu ([144.132.228.157]) by oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20070410042446.VKMM19518.oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpa.nu> for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:24:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 50542 invoked by uid 501); 10 Apr 2007 04:24:15 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:24:15 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly To: JoaoBR Message-ID: <20070410042415.GA50510@duncan.reilly.home> References: <20060327093011.GA21070@math.jussieu.fr> <4427E3B1.3020704@kernel32.de> <20060328104007.GD87799@gurney.reilly.home> <200603280747.55047.joao@matik.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603280747.55047.joao@matik.com.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: shih@math.jussieu.fr, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Marian Hettwer Subject: Re: watchdog network card 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: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:24:48 -0000 Wow. Somehow we've slipped through a one-year timewarp: On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:47:54AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:40, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > > After the last rebuild on my amd64-x2 box, both the nve ethernet > > on the motherboard and the dc ethernet that I had been using to > > work around other problems in the nve driver stopped working in > > this way. DEVICE_POLLING and ifconfig...polling has got me > > going again. I thoroughly recommend it. > > > > nve does not run polling mode but dc does > > I guess you have an IRQ conflict, nve and dc on the same hw interrupt, and > that setting dc in polling mode worked around this problem then > > you could check vmstat -i with and without polling enabled to see it Thanks for the tip. I haven't been running dc or nve for about a year, now :-) Nfe has been working beautifully for me, without polling. I guess that I should have a look to see if nve has improved in the interim, but it's difficult to make oneself mess with something that isn't broken... Cheers, -- Andrew