Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:42:29 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: call for nve(4) users to test a patch Message-ID: <20050912204229.GE20997@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <17189.54978.162790.14624@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <20050912172733.GD20997@elvis.mu.org> <17189.54978.162790.14624@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Maxime Henrion writes: > > This patch just reduces the size of the TX ring by one. Many NIC chips > > in existence today have such bugs and require similar fixes, so I'm not > > I'm sorry, but it does not work for me on my Nforce4 based > motherboard running FreeBSD/amd64: > > nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xb400-0xb407 mem 0xfebf9000-0xfebf9fff irq 22 at device 10.0 on pci0 > nve0: Ethernet address 00:01:29:f5:6b:91 > miibus1: <MII bus> on nve0 > ciphy0: <Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY> on miibus1 > ciphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto > nve0: Ethernet address: 00:01:29:f5:6b:91 > nve0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > nve0: link state changed to DOWN > nve0: link state changed to UP > nve0: device timeout (2) Ok, I should have said that this patch will only help if you get a "device timeout (64)" message, so it won't help here unfortunately. > I'm totally unable to send or receive any traffic under FreeBSD with this > nic. It doesn't randomly timeout, it never manages to transmit (or receive) > anything. > > I can provide more details about this board upon request.. > > > > really surprised. It also seems Linux's forcedeth driver does such a > > thing, but it's hard to tell because it uses an entirely different API > > than us. > > The Solaris driver (from http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng) uses the > same interface as we do, and uses the same version of the nvidia libs. It > has been bulletproof for me so far on this same machine when it is booted > into Solaris. I'll look into this ASAP. Thanks, Maxime
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