From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 16:17:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4EC16A512; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:17:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30CE743D53; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:17:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [212.227.126.179] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CI8IR-0000Qr-00; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:17:43 +0200 Received: from [217.83.7.152] (helo=donor.laier.local) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CI8IQ-0003I8-00; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:17:43 +0200 From: Max Laier To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:17:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2975677.l3a4ukALMZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410141817.16391.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 cc: Bruce M Simpson cc: Ian FREISLICH cc: Robert Huff cc: Robert Watson cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network slowness/freez-up since update 10/11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:17:46 -0000 --nextPart2975677.l3a4ukALMZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 14 October 2004 14:46, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 04:27:22PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > > There appears to bea problem with if_de cards and Giant-free operatio= n. > > > I'm working with John Baldwin to try and diagnose it. Could you try > > > putting debug.mpsafenet=3D0 in /boot/loader.conf and reboot to confirm > > > that this is what's going on? > > > > The de(4) driver is a bit of a mess as regards locking. > > I had a look at this back in June/July but no longer have the hardware. > > It would probably be best to bring it under IFF_NEEDSGIANT. > > I have a > > de0: port 0xe800-0xe87f mem 0xea001000-0xea00107f > irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci0 de0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > de0: DEC DE450-CA 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 > de0: Ethernet address: 00:00:f8:30:dd:c2 > de0: if_start running deferred for Giant > > that is no longer in use. If it will be of help, I'll mail it to > you (you'll need to give me your shipping address). Unless somebody else wants it, I'd be very happy to get hold of it in order= to=20 try what Bruce suggested and/or clean up the de(4) driver. Shipping address= =20 to follow in private mail. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart2975677.l3a4ukALMZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBbqaMXyyEoT62BG0RAhPZAJ4hVBu8FH7WF0+FjJcmoY5Xrdq2EQCeJ5jW qYWu7mZOx+oFhXYIA4jUnac= =I7XO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2975677.l3a4ukALMZ--