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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:30:07 GMT
From:      Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/70474: if_axe USB interface stops responding
Message-ID:  <200408150930.i7F9U7NU040128@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200408150930.i7F9UK9q011913@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         70474
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       if_axe USB interface stops responding
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 15 09:30:20 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Thompson
>Release:        5.2-CURRENT
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I have a Netgear FA120 (if_axe) which is causing me greif. After doing
moderate network traffic it will stop responding with oodles of "axe0: read
PHY failed" on the console. A cvsup triggers it quite reliably.

On further analysis I found that it will not send any ethernet frame where the
size % 64 == 0

For instance all of the following will timeout
  ping -s 22 <host>
  ping -s 86 <host>
  ping -s 150 <host>
etc...

Comparing to the other USB network drivers, I added USBD_FORCE_SHORT_XFER to
the transfer flags and it nas now been working reliably for months. I have 
not seen any throughput reduction as a result.

>How-To-Repeat:
      
>Fix:
--- sys/dev/usb/if_axe.c    Thu Jun 10 02:34:03 2004
+++ sys/dev/usb/if_axe.c    Thu Jul  1 20:31:57 2004
@@ -808,7 +808,8 @@
        c->axe_mbuf = m;
 
        usbd_setup_xfer(c->axe_xfer, sc->axe_ep[AXE_ENDPT_TX],
-           c, c->axe_buf, m->m_pkthdr.len, 0, 10000, axe_txeof);
+           c, c->axe_buf, m->m_pkthdr.len, USBD_FORCE_SHORT_XFER,
+           10000, axe_txeof);
 
        /* Transmit */
        err = usbd_transfer(c->axe_xfer);
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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